Work, like educational opportunities, is scarce, making it a constant struggle to pay the monthly rent of nearly $250 an extraordinarily high figure given both the meager living conditions and the fact that it's possible to find rooms for a similar price in some of Beirut's richer districts.
At some Asian factories, employees have complained about prisonlike working conditions, meager wages and harsh living environments.
Some reported new born baby Apgar score and weight, but most often the information on the newborn infant was meager and the condition of baby/child noted as normal, "healthy baby," or nothing abnormal.
The clothing industry is globally notorious for substandard working conditions and meager wages.
While Americans are fond of low prices for clothing, some are possible only because workers in Bangladesh (among other countries) toil in sweatshops for meager wages, in dangerous conditions.
BY delving so deeply into the lives of her subjects, Chang succeeds in exploring the degree to which China's factory girls are exploited — working grueling hours in sometimes poor conditions for meager wages with little job security — without allowing the book to degenerate into a diatribe.
Though you may not have heard it, in the midst of Black Friday's media madness, its warehouse staff last week went on strike globally, in protest at poor conditions and meager wages.
While the many workers, or "proletarians," in new industrial factories worked under terrible conditions for meager wages, the few factory owners, "the bourgeoisie" or "capitalists," amassed great wealth and power.
The surfing conditions were meager — waves were only about a foot high at some spots in Newport Beach — but the dedicated took time out of their day.
