Sentence examples for exploitative wages from inspiring English sources

All African refugees and migrants, they are desperately competing for the opportunity to work long hours in the fields as illegal agricultural workers for paltry, exploitative wages.

Usury in modern Britain is a scandal comparable to exploitative wages in Victorian days: it was argued then that people who freely enter into a contract should be bound by it.

Political parties and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have drawn bull's-eyes on transnational companies because they're the most visible and vulnerable symbols of globalization's side effects, such as exploitative wages, pollution, and cultural imperialism.

This phenomenon of migrant labour I think people in Europe tend to think with a sort of fortress mentality that all these migrant workers are wanting to come here, particularly those on the right, and they do not make that connection on the right with the fact that actually exploitative wages drive migration, they do still need real people.

Marxists would claim that capitalists pay exploitative wages to the employed precisely because there is a "reserve army" of the unemployed with whom the employed must compete.

The federal minimum wage has been on the books since the Great Depression to prevent employers from paying exploitative wages.

Their aim is to produce high-quality, affordable garments for everyone interested in supporting a labour model that presents an alternative to exploitative wage work, with customers being told exactly how the money paid for each jumper is used.

Those moments when, for example, you pick up a plastic-wrapped packet of mangetout in a supermarket, fleetingly dwell on their food miles or the likely exploitative wage of the Kenyan farmer who grew them, but still pop them into your shopping basket and shuffle towards the next aisle.

Fidelma goes on a picaresque tour of immigrant London, and witnesses dozens more testimonies in broken English covering every issue from FGM to exploitative cleaners' wages.

Where they had been smuggled or apparently trafficked, their experience on their first boat was the most exploitative, with wages underpaid or unpaid, their fear and confusion greatest and the degree of control exerted over them strongest.

"The minimum wage was introduced to eliminate perceived exploitative pay at the bottom end of the jobs market, taking into account the prospect that minimum wages set too high would lead to fewer job opportunities," said its director-general Mark Littlewood.