wageworker

Example Sentences

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Entire communities that had survived through cultivation in common fields found themselves facing mass impoverishment, with two main choices: emigrate or become wageworkers.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Were we to sacrifice the multiplied thousands of wageworkers who have committed their interests to our hands and yield to the pressure of corporate power, we would be totally unworthy of American citizenship.

From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by Burns, W. F.

It will continue so as long as the lives of great multitudes of wageworkers revolve around a job, and they know no other way to supply human needs but a wage.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard

That can only be done by providing a right life environment for all wageworkers and their families, particularly the children.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard

In a crisis wages and salaries are less affected than are profits, but wageworkers suffer in the loss of employment.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert