pauperization
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I don't like to shop at Wal-Mart but sometimes I can't afford not to and thereby support the continued pauperization of my fellow workers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2013
Since Algeria is unable at present to feed more than 3,000,000 people, the result has been mass pauperization.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is demonstrated that the pauperization of the feebler rural population went on apace by the passage of poor-laws under Elizabeth, which, in the Middle Ages, had not been needed and, therefore, were unknown.
From The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Adams, Brooks
The Napoleonic war cut off the vast cornfields of America from England, and as a great historian shows was followed by a terrible pauperization of the laboring classes.
From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by Bryce, George
It certainly is an abominable system: it conceals the pauperization of the workingman and it provokes his own rendering of himself superfluous through the children who work for the most miserable of wages.
From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel
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