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
A condition of slavery or of serfdom produces two grievous evils, around which cluster many others of less importance, viz: the creation of vast landed estates, and the pauperization and debasement of labor.
From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Mr Barnett did much to discourage outdoor relief, as tending to the pauperization of the neighbourhood.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
A new tax, he explained, meant a further step in the pauperization of the masses.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
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