Sentence examples for wage labour from inspiring English sources

" Six women work in low paying jobs as agricultural labourers (generally known as kuli workers who engage in wage labour), domestic workers, and child care providers (Table 2).

Consequently, de-peasantization, wage labour, and general agrarian impoverishment followed.

Karl Marx, Wage Labour and Capital, in The Marx-Engels Reader, ed.

Fishing, hunting, trading, and wage labour are other activities of economic significance.

Wage labour also provides a source of income for some people.

Maggie's Farm - booed at Newport - combines class and generational rage in a renunciation of wage labour.

So the government says it wants to lower non-wage labour costs.

It seems then that America has a surplus of low-wage labour.

The revenue raised is to be used to cut surging non-wage labour costs.

As welfare costs have swollen, non-wage labour costs have shot up too, from 36% of gross wages in 1990 to a painful 42% last year.

According to one story, monopsony conditions for low-wage labour, ie, imperfectly competitive labour-market conditions in which there is but a single buyer of low-wage labour (or a colluding band of buyers) that is able to set wages at a level workers have little choice but to accept.