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Definition of starvation wages in English: starvation wagesplural noun Wages which are below the level necessary for subsistence. Example sentencesExamples - Retired doesn't mean dead, says a group that sticks up for former city employees, even if pensioners are getting starvation wages.
- Russia's February 1917 revolution started when women textile workers went on strike, sick to death of working long hours for starvation wages.
- Often, they work for starvation wages under conditions that make a mockery of all safety and protective regulations.
- This is a drastic improvement, considering that the initial struggle was to rescue workers from harsh and hazardous conditions with starvation wages.
- These businesses make money off of starvation wages.
- And while Spain is booming economically, there's a lot of anti-globalisation sentiment among young people because youth unemployment is so high and they're on starvation wages.
- Wretched housing, starvation wages and an indefatigable sense of community: a description of the existence of thousands of York citizens at the turn of the 20th century.
- In addition, many Mexicans would rather stay at home, but companies pay starvation wages in the maquiladoras, and wind up creating the very conditions forcing people to come here.
- As a result, all other sectors are suffering - hospitals are without drugs, schools are without books and civil servants are being forced to accept starvation wages.
- Not only are these workers being paid starvation wages, but they are in many instances, together with their families, daily subjected to all forms of abuse, including violence.
- A multinational behind glamorous fashion and perfume brands pays its factory workers starvation wages.
- Many flee wars, but many more flee ruinous prices and starvation wages.
- This is especially so if they knew the people driving them are paid starvation wages and go without sleep for days at a time.
- Nzimande said farm workers and their families were paid starvation wages and subjected to daily abuse.
- Bolivian teachers earn starvation wages that oscillate between US $100 and US $200, an amount that places them below the poverty line and makes it nearly impossible to raise a family.
- While companies like Starbucks reap massive profits, coffee farmers and plantation workers live on starvation wages.
- Working families, Mother Jones argued, possessed vast, untapped powers to fight the corporations that bound them to starvation wages and the corrupt politicians who did the businessmen's bidding.
- The brothers quickly became leaders among the farm workers, demanding an end to starvation wages and the debt-driven servitude they found in the fields.
- To a reporter's question, the president replied, ‘Something has to be done about the elimination of child labor and long hours and starvation wages.’
- The workers point out that the construction companies take advantage of the high unemployment in the region to pay starvation wages.
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