11 sentences with 'wages'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wages and other words derived from it.
• « High wages and profit sharing could transform them into shareholders in the capitalist system. »
• « He also tried to freeze wages and prices by decree, but this did not work as it created a black market in both goods and labour. »
• « The immediate effect of the Black Death was that lords tried to prevent their peasants from fleeing the land and to keep wages at the low levels they were at before the plague struck, provoking several peasant uprisings. »
• « As real wages did not increase among workers until quite late in the century, the real living conditions of the majority of the population generally worsened in industrial regions until the second half of the century. »
• « A badge of honour for the middle classes was that the woman of the house did not have to work for wages, nor did she have to do hard work in the house if at all possible. Thus, it was believed that a servant was essential. »
• « The first sign of this dissension came in France: socialists in the new French parliament (called the National Assembly, as in the first French republic half a century earlier) created new "National Workshops" in Paris that offered good wages to anyone who needed work. »
• « Ironically, the Social Democratic Party of Germany rejected Bernstein's revisionism, but what the party actually did was really "revisionist": fighting for legal protection of workers, wages and working conditions. »