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subsistence wage
noun
- the lowest wage upon which a worker and his family can survive
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No matter how much you give to the poor, everything except a bare subsistence wage will be taken from them again by force.
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How can a man or woman engaged in such labour for ten hours a day at subsistence wage enjoy a fully developed life?
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One of these figures was designed for a subsistence wage, the other for a “human needs” wage.
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Also in most trades women and children are employed, to whom it is not even pretended that a subsistence wage is given.
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The most that Trade Unionism has secured, or can ever hope to secure, for the workers, is a comfortable subsistence wage.
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