subsistence wage
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She described the job as having changed in those years from a decent way to make a living to one that did not even offer a subsistence wage.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2019
One’s ability to obtain a subsistence wage was directly tied to the amount of effort one applied to the work process.
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2018
Adam Smith, Ricardo, held that the worker was forever doomed to a ''minimum subsistence wage.''
From Time Magazine Archive
In the crude early days of our economic development, Marx shrewdly appraised our system's weakness �workers got only a subsistence wage, were thus unable to buy back the product of their labor.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, the proper subsistence wage should rather be � 12,516, i.e. net of taxes and premiums.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas
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