Sentence examples for subsistence workers from inspiring English sources

In many of those nations, Lewis contended, there was not a single economy but a two-track economy, one part inhabited by upwardly mobile, skilled workers and the other by subsistence workers.

Second, the evidence of what works for subsistence workers is limited.

Outreach activities need to be considered, as subsistence workers with limited social networks are the hardest group to reach.

For subsistence wages, unskilled workers endured menial factory labor under desperately inhumane working conditions.

Two payments for "Filipino workers' subsistence" at the sites totaled $8,000.

La Paz continues to serve the UFW in its struggle to improve farm workers' subsistence -level earnings and to stop their dying from heat in the fields.

There are hundreds of millions of rural Chinese living slightly above subsistence and factory workers struggling month to month while a small percent of the population enjoy what we, in the West, would term comfortable lives.

Residents of the region are primarily subsistence farmers or workers in mining enterprises, large commercial forestry operations, or tea estates.

Newly created sugar plantations across Cambodia have created thousands of cash-paying jobs for destitute migrant workers and subsistence farmers, and hundreds of jobs for skilled factory workers.

At the time there was little more than a tiny village sandwiched between the ocean and a small, steep, jungle-covered mountain, home to fishermen and former construction workers turned subsistence farmers.

After one year of training, during which the migrant workers receive subsistence pay below the minimum wage, trainees are allowed to work for two more years in their area of expertise at legal wage levels.