truck system

American  

noun

1. the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.

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truck system British  

noun

1. a system during the early years of the Industrial Revolution of forcing workers to accept payment of wages in kind, usually to the employer's advantage

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Etymology

Origin of truck system

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

In 2021, it rolled out Paccar Connect, a next-generation connected truck system, in Europe.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022

For this the country has built its grand, intricate railroad and truck system, the many-geared machinery of warehouses, outlets, middlemen, packing plants.

From Time Magazine Archive

The truck system, the payment of the operatives in goods, was formerly universal in England. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

The Englishman, when he finds the truck system far from home, cannot too strongly revile it.

From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

But the truck system, unlimited and excessive time of labour, and other abuses, caused it to produce the precisely opposite effect to that proposed by the framers of the law.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various