wage worker

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For example, two full-time minimum wage workers in 2001 had a combined yearly income of $19,776.
The migrants are initially hired by indigenous farmers (who can transfer land rights to the next generation) as wage workers on short-term contracts.
Against such conditions of affairs the whole sentiment - the entire interest - of the wage workers should be directed.
This article argues that a definition of male and female workers which existed prior to the rise of labour markets deeply affected the way men and women became wage workers.
There was, of course, no reliable sampling frame on which to base a random sample of rural wage workers.
The census category from which the 51 percent figure was calculated included foremen along with wage workers.
If dirtier industries are intensive in the use of more highly skilled workers, this may result in high wage workers locating close to dirty industries.
A generic term for older non-elderly persons is therefore needed, one that does not refer only to wage workers.
Ricardo believed that there were three classes in modern society : capitalists, landlords and wage workers.
The fact of increasing numbers of female wage workers (even women factory workers) not only did not alter these ideas but in fact reinforced them.
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