Sentences with phrase «subsistence wages»

Our firm seeks to right the wrongs done to people who have been paid nothing or subsistence wages and who have been subjected to the control of others.

But most workers were paid more than subsistence wages as defined by economists.

In Ricardo's day it was assumed that labor worked for subsistence and that subsistence wages were much the same everywhere.

Behind their barbed - wire fences, Jamaican law did not apply, workers could not organize or strike, there were no benefits, wages were minimal and factories exported cheap goods without any benefit to the Jamaican economy other than subsistence wages.

Not exact matches

Russian labor is to be paid wages above subsistence levels only to the extent that it can be taxed, thereby «freeing» as much non-wage income as possible from taxation — in particular, income for the privatized land, mineral resources and hitherto public utilities.

Employment is understood as working for wages, and since subsistence farmers do not receive wages they are not considered among the employed.

He assumed that subsistence provided a floor for worker wages.

In fact, wages were probably often below subsistence measured in this way.

This, in turn, will increase the demand for labor and will give workers sufficient wages to develop their needs beyond mere subsistence, thus ensuring ever - rising consumer demand.

A hireling worked for wages because all other means of obtaining subsistence had been denied him.

Mexican labor is so abundant, that the movement of more factories south of the border is unlikely to raise Mexican wages above subsistence.

Far from needing many more college graduates, which would push wages even further down, we need an economy where people who work full time without a degree can survive well above subsistence level and closer to their college educated peers as they used to before 1980.

Pay for services performed, like wages, salaries, tips, ROTC active duty pay (for example, pay that you received during advanced camp during the summer — but not ROTC subsistence allowances)