starvation wages

For the workers, however, there are starvation wages and permanent austerity.

He kept miners on starvation wages and answered reform attempts with force.

Bonuses for starvation wages and environmental pollution? That is ironic to say the least!

Starvation Wages Unemployment hit 40 percent last year, double that of 1985.

They are hard workers, he said, whose desire to earn a living had left them vulnerable to accepting starvation wages.

To working for starvation wages without safety, health care, security now or later or anything else that makes life decent?

All of these jobs paid only starvation wages.

They were also prepared to agree to not being insured against accidents and to work illegally for starvation wages.

Starvation wages were the right wages, I was told.

These factories frequently employ children, pay starvation wages and intimidate union organizers.

Then they erect sweatshops in which women work for starvation wages!'

For the increasing number of those without, there was only what unaided brute labor would buy: starvation wages.

Starvation wages and insecure temporary contracts are an everyday part of Indian electronic industry.

This landmark victory changed the lives of thousands of workers who were earning little more than 'starvation wages'.

It took four more years to create their act, during a time when the Cranes lived on training athletes' starvation wages in Moscow.

Moreover, a new council was appointed, besides requiring the British authorities that they'd be granted 2,000 starvation wages for those most in need.

Development built on starvation wages, far from kick-starting a steady improvement in conditions, has proved to be a case of one step forward, three steps back.

Owning no land, many traveled from farm to farm picking fruit and other crops at starvation wages.

This was far less than the £5,000 advance and royalty that Wilde had initially hoped for, describing the deal he got as "starvation wages".

Again aimed at workers in the Reading area, Rieve declared war "against industrial slavery starvation wages".

Western clothing, motor scooters and the roadside merchants at factories, even where food was provided, did not give the impression of "starvation wages."

Starvation wages, low prices and crippling taxes drove many to desperation and caused social upheavals on the land.

And millions more existed on starvation wages as employers ruthlessly cut costs to keep the doors of factories and offices open.

We shall never be able to compete with the starvation wages and union rights of the countries of the third world and Eastern Europe.

The young women who work in them - almost all sweatshop workers are young women - endure starvation wages, forced overtime and dangerous working conditions.