9 sentences with “subsistence”

In turn, wages were paid at near subsistence level until after (about) 1850.

Agriculture reverted to subsistence levels, and trade with neighbouring areas all but disappeared.

It is known: experience is useful for subsistence and, combined with imagination, life can be less complicated.

In other areas, as in most British-controlled territories, it was in the form of subsistence wages paid to the workers.

In short, agriculture definitively left the subsistence model behind and became a commercial enterprise in Britain in 1800.

The early Middle Ages, from around 500 to 800 CE, functioned largely on the basis of subsistence agriculture and a barter economy.

Meanwhile, the revolutionary government created a subsistence committee to develop and elaborate a system of price control, requisitioning and monetary regulation, backed by police power.

In turn, this reversion to local subsistence economies cut them off from important sources of nutrition and materials for daily life, as well as from foreign ideas and cultural influences.

This descent into subsistence had occurred for a number of reasons over the course of the previous centuries. The fall of Rome's western empire had strangled the manufacture and trade of high-quality consumer goods (a trade that had been extensive in Rome).