Wage-earner

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Equivalents

Examples

“It is not to be assumed, of course, that the whole body of the population living in the tenements, of which New Yorkers are in the habit o£ speaking vaguely as “the poor,” or even the larger part of it, is to be classed as vicious or as poor in the sense⟳ of verging on beggary. New York’s wage-earners have⟳ no other place⟳ to live⟳, more is the pity.”

“The instance of a few buyers and many sellers in the factor market with many buyers and sellers in the product market is typified by the classic cases of unorganized wage-earners in company towns, for instance, textile and coal.”

“During the past two years we have⟳ been at great pains to elaborate a constructive programme to be followed after the wage-earners had repudiated wagery.”

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