Wages example sentences

They tried to cut wages and the number of workmen they employed.They get the maximum work out of the workers at the lowest possible wages.a large crowd of weavers emerged from their homes and marched in pairs up to the mansion of their contractor demanding higher wages.These people work in firms as workers and earn wages.Wages are low and workers are forced to work overtime to make both ends meet.Wages are low, as domestic work does not have much value.Wages that the companies pay to workers, say in the U.In short, a capitalist economy can be defined as an economy in which most of the economic activities have the following characteristics (a) there is private ownership of means of production (b) production takes place for selling the output in the market (c) there is sale and purchase of labour services at a price which is called the wage rate (the labour which is sold and purchased against wages is referred to as wage labour).The wages of professionals were paid by patronage or subscription or gate money.Thus, people who work in factories and receive wages and salaries are in the employment of factory owners and are employees of the factory.As you will know, when there is plenty of labour, wages are low.Government supervised large factories to ensure minimum wages and limited hours of work.They are unable to compete with the showy goods which Manchester sends in such profusion, and they have of late years emigrated in great numbers, chiefly to Berar, where as day labourers they are able to obtain wages …' Census Report of Central Provinces, 1872, quoted in Sumit Guha, 'The handloom industry in Central India, 1825-1950', The Indian Economic and Social History Review.Workers' wages are fixed according to their skills.Wages increased somewhat in the early nineteenth century.