Sentences with phrase «wage workers spread»

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The steam engine led to oppression for miners and other workers, the spread of vast urban slums, and a ruthless stranglehold by capitalistic investors on the wage earner.24 In the twentieth century, the effects of the automobile have been similarly far - reaching and ambivalent.

Meanwhile, technological advances - in particular the spread of computers - accelerated the economy's need for skills, once again boosting the wage premium received by more - educated workers (see Figure 2).