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Meanings of wage labour in English

Russian
наёмный рабочий
Portuguese
trabalho assalariado
Spanish
trabajo por un salario
Catalan
treball assalariat

Relationship where a worker sells labour to an employer.

наёмный рабочий
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Examples for "wage labor"
Examples for "wage labor"
1
Because there was no money, there was no wage labor.
The Black Experience in America
2
Natural resources invited industry in large units, but wage labor was not to be had.
American Negro Slavery / A Survey of the Supply, Employment and ...
3
It's a crop that doesn't do very well with something like slavery or wage labor.
Outliers: the story of success
4
White people still have more access to wage labor.
The Guardian
5
That is the weakness of slave labor; and of wage labor also where there is not full industrial education and freedom of choice.
The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
Usage of wage labour in English
1
The link between wage labour and economic security has long been a mirage in South Africa.
The South African
2
But in a place like South Africa, finding economic security through wage labour was never the solution.
The South African
3
Second, and even more important, the crisis has not simply hit wage labour, which is the normal way of capitalism.
The Guardian
4
The exposed sector is a two-level CES where highly and lowly productive labour are complementary, but both are substitutable with minimum wage labour:
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
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Households dependent on wage labour can afford to buy a quarter of the wheat they bought in 2007, according to the World Food Programme.
Reuters
6
It also provides an opportunity to delink basic livelihood from wage labour, and begin to develop policies that deliver an economically secure future for all.
The South African
7
Non- wage labour costs actually fell 2.4 percent in France, against a 0.3 percent rise across the EU and a 1.0 percent rise in Germany.
Reuters
8
Da earned a good wage labouring in the squire's fields.
The Reality Dysfunction