Sentences with phrase «wage slaves of»

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It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

From Carlson's view, it was the resulting liberation of lots and lots of women to be wage slaves just like men that struck a decisive blow against the big and stable American family.

But the liberation of women to be wage slaves just like men was far more bourgeois than bohemian — it certainly wasn't liberation to do your own thing.

1) A slave was bought at a price determined by the number of years he should serve and the minimum wage.

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

With the depletion of Mesoamerican workers, largely to disease, cacao production like coffee was often the work of poor wage laborers and African slaves.

A fellow - traveler in New York, Thomas Skidmore, soon followed with his own Workingmen's Party of New York, and wrote in his first message to its members that he, too, thought that the great evil was the rise of modern servitude in the form of wage labour: «For he, in all countries is a slave, who must work more for another than that other must work for him.

He talks about wage slaves, and he talks about the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The rest were corrupt slaves of the corporations who allowed three men to acquire fortunes so vast they could have possessed a small European nation while the wage of their workers was flat and kept them destitute.

Waging war is just one of the habits that ants share with humans: Many species live in large, well - organized societies, and others take slaves, herd aphids like cattle, and raise fungi for food in underground farms.

Parker and Longbaugh are two drifters not cut out to be wage slaves, not quite smart enough or motivated enough to make it big («A pint of your blood can fetch fifty bucks.

Wage - slave purgatory in three different flavours is the subject of Seth Gordon's comedy, as his trio of downtrodden leads decide that the only way to break free from remorseless professional abuse is by murdering their respective bosses.

Success vs. selling out debates follow, as do takedowns of corporate exploitation, billionaire bros, mass media, wage - slave labor, the celebrity co-opting of activists, racial strife, pretentious performance art, our viral age and anything else that wanders in to the movie's crosshairs.

A failed teacher in the brutal corporate charter school world where profit is king, children are reduced to being numbers, and teachers are wage slaves forced to bully children becomes the teacher of the year in the traditional public schools where she now teaches.

Quite frankly, I make more than many Trad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my work.

In Chinese, wage slaves complain of having to «dining on the wind and farting smoke (喝风屙烟 ）.»

Face it: if you owe a pile of high interest debt, you're a wage slave.

Mark Kingwell is a professor in philosophy at the University of Toronto and the author of 16 books including The Wage - Slave's Glossary (Biblioasis).

I am currently receiving around 25 % of the amount I believe myself and my wife need to live reasonably in a lifestyle that is independent from the need to be a wage slave, and this should further increase over the next few years.

As an hourly wage - slave I've added the net of my last few pay raises as well as any overtime or bonus money I receive to my mortgage payment.

I bet you're still sore at the loss of slavery which meant that goods became more expensive because they had to pay their workers a living wage rather than keep slaves...

João José Reis documents in his book, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia, that these African slaves were waging a jihad to establish an Islamic state in Brazil run by shari'ah laws.

Revenge of the Wage Slave — Class Action Overtime Cases, Orange County Lawyer Magazine, Volume 43, No. 11 (November 2001)

There were two career paths from which he could choose: Either get a J - O - B with a big company working in a cubical and becoming a wage slave, or go to work for himself without the «security» (or constraints) of working for someone else.