Sentence examples for subsistence wages from inspiring English sources

They get paid subsistence wages.

In a place like Haiti, subsistence wages may be undignified, but they are better than starvation.

The company cultivated coffee for export, often appropriating locals' land and hiring the dispossessed back as labourers on subsistence wages.

He maintained that within the capitalist system, labour was a mere commodity that could gain only subsistence wages.

They live in cramped dormitories and are paid subsistence wages, risking their lives with little prospect of advancement.

Those left working with the cattle earned subsistence wages but were able to keep their link to the land.

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

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.