Sentence examples for working for a pittance from inspiring English sources

The laments of those forced into the factories, working for a pittance with no chance of escape.

Whether they are being threatened with the Conservatives' new jobseeker boot camps or working for a pittance, things look bleak for young people.

The song ends with the battered soul having escaped the horror of slavery, but now stuck working for a pittance far from home.

(Seven to a room! What indignity!) Meanwhile, Poppins' consort, Bert the chimney sweep, is delusional as he sings that he's "as lucky as can be" when he's working for a pittance in a service industry before the first world war.

Kojo then experienced a little of the life of a slave, spending a hard year working for a pittance on an agricultural plantation in Libya to pay for his onward journey.

They say they have great concerns when it's pointed out that people are working for a pittance in Bangladesh but it's really funny how they can notice one bit of bad fruit or D-list a farmer who asks too many questions.

In the early 1980s, she worked for a pittance as a botanical illustrator at Kew Gardens.

But local residents resent the Tajik and Uzbek migrants because "they are prepared to work for a pittance and take our jobs".

The girls are expected to work for a pittance ($2 a week is typical) until that front money has been recouped.

She seemed haunted by the quaint idealism of the revolution, the men who had worked for a pittance, the wives who had cooked meals out of coffee tins.

The 500 foreign men who inhabit this Victorian edifice in west London are criminals and a drain on public funds; moreover, they are usually prepared to work for a pittance.