Sentence examples for a subsistence wage from inspiring English sources

At a former collective farm near Yaroslavl, simply called Motherland, workers receive $50 a month, higher than the national average, but a subsistence wage nonetheless.

In recent years, the average catch plummeted to two kilograms per day, yielding a subsistence wage.

A workweek tends to run seven days and yields a subsistence wage.

Though hardly a subsistence wage, it is far less than the stars pulled in the dotcom glory days.

Furthermore, Marx held that, in capitalism, labour was merely a commodity: in exchange for work, a labourer would receive a subsistence wage.

If some company down the street pays its security guards less than a subsistence wage, why is Harvard, the wealthiest university in the nation, obligated to follow suit?

A living wage is arguably higher than the subsistence wage Marx ( 2004) wrote about.

The workers were paid a below-subsistence wage of just 72 cents an hour, which meets less than a quarter of a family's basic subsistence needs for food, housing, healthcare and clothing.

The "subsistence" wage itself might rise, for example.

The central equation of Marx's analysis is the ratio of surplus value over the subsistence wage portion of value produced, to which latter Marx assigns the rather vague and unsatisfactory label of "variable capital," or "v": hence, s/v.

Time lost was valued at the prevailing minimum subsistence wage rate in Ghana in 2005 (i.e. 15,200 old Ghanaian Cedis/1.68 US$ per day).