Wages which are below the level necessary for subsistence.
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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.