Sentences with phrase «wage labor»

"Wage labor" refers to a work arrangement where a person is paid a specific amount of money in exchange for their time and effort. Instead of working for themselves or as a part of a family business, individuals who engage in wage labor are hired by someone else or a company to perform tasks or provide services. Full definition
I hope that many of our members join the hourly - wage labor force and become active in unions.
Then they work them 6 Days a week for there slave wage labor, that normally would be Illegal.
Millions who were once able to subsist from their plots of land and surrounding forests have now been forced to depend on wage labor which is in little demand.
New York City should also fight to wrest control over the minimum wage from the state, seek permission to enforce state wage labor laws and enact paid family leave through an expansion of the state's temporary disability insurance program.
When colonial governments in Africa found that natives were reluctant to work on plantations or roads, they required them to pay taxes in cash, which they could obtain only by wage labor.
In some industries, U.S. workers now compete withlow - wage labor in China and other developing countries.
«These treaties have forced American workers to compete against desperate and low - wage labor around the world.
This will be possible because in the process of industrialization they will develop the advanced technology and specialized skills that free them from competition with low - wage labor elsewhere.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer thought that the idea of vocation had been deeply misunderstood, especially by those among his fellow Lutherans who had used the concept as a way of vindicating the status quo and validating such institutions as marriage and wage labor as preferable to all other social or economic arrangements.
Here is the picture of the alienated labor given in the Manuscripts, the only difference being that Marx no longer calls it alienated labor, but simply wage labor.
Yes, prices at Walmart are lower, but he has to compete with low - wage labor abroad.
There has also been a shift from agricultural wage labor (considered to be socially inferior) to self - employment, which has had a positive effect on the employment and wages of the remaining agricultural waged laborers.
In some cases this category may also be used to contract other forms of temporary waged labor not covered by this schedule.
All of the films deal with the subject of work, especially the kind of manual wage labor performed by cashiers, factory employees, construction workers and mechanics, which is often considered as lowly drudgery.
In November — December 2012, successfully represented management of a South Florida company being investigated by the United States Department of Labor into alleged wage - hour compliance issues, including updating the company's record keeping practices to clarify proof of compliance with wage labor laws.
But most must become part of the wage labor force.
Those who had been evicted had no choice but wage labor, much of it in factories.
To say that the interests of capital and those of the workers are one and the same is only to say that capital and wage labor are two sides of one and the same relation.
Sandel devotes an entire chapter to the opposition between «free labor» and «wage labor».
Privatized prisons have allowed companies to basically use slave - wage labor to produce their goods.
Lopez's subject was low - wage labor, and his research that afternoon consisted of raking leaves.
Strange parables of surveillance and wage labor, they are alternately didactic and enigmatic, with no consistent narrator standing behind.
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