Sentences with phrase «wage labourers»

From independent small fishermen and farmers they became wage labourers working for a triumvirate of ruling families in a succession of new industries - logwood, chicle, coconut - their lives transformed into a grinding monotony, guided only by their employers» need to accumulate more wealth.

Remember that Marx's categories and Marxist categories are designed to satisfying a Hegelian turned empiricist who wanted to weaponise productive wage labourers.

Thus the average San Pedrano participated in the industry as wage labourer rather tha as an independent farmer.

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Various workingmen's parties soon followed across the US, motivated by a concern that the rise of a permanent class of wage - labourers had introduced a form of slavery under the sign of «free labour.»

To capture this voluntary but unfree condition, George McNeill, an editor and leading figure in the Knights of Labor, remarked of wage - labourers that they «assent but they do not consent, they submit but do not agree.»

Though legally self - owning, wage - labourer's were forced to sell their labour to owners.

Their worry that wage - labourers might not be fully independent, because of radical inequalities of wealth, points us well beyond the current, quite popular but potentially superficial, concern with inequalities of income.

In 1828, William Heighton, a radical shoemaker, announced to a group of Philadelphia labourers that the wage - labour system «is... an iron chain of bondage.

But wage - labourers, these republicans said, were kept «in a state of humble dependence» by the monopoly of control over landed and productive property.

Wage - labourers were compelled to sell their labour in just this way because they had no reasonable alternative to doing so.

(Now no one would bother providing capital at 0 return, however essentially it is assumed that the wage and profit approaches but does not equal those 2 amounts) Now in addition we assume that a new method of utilising capital appears that allows the old capital that needed ten labourers to be utilised with 1.

No one appreciates more than I how important a daily wage is to labourers.»

Any individual with low - income group such as small farmer, rickshaw puller, daily wage worker, domestic help, labourer or micro-entrepreneur etc. can protect their assets and lives under micro-insurance policy.