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Definition of Living wage
1. Noun. A wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Living Wage
Literary usage of Living wage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"ESTIMATES OF A living wage FOR FEMALE WORKERS. BY CHARLES E. PERSONS, ...
In Wisconsin a living wage means compensation sufficient to enable the employee to ..."
2. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"2 In the badly sweated trades this means a considerable increase for most of the
workers, but not necessarily a living wage. For instance, in chain-making, ..."
3. The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Herbert Feis (1921)
"The definition of the living wage idea. An inescapable element of indefinite- ness
... The living wage principle put in the form of applied policy. ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1902)
"With tables of wages, and cost of living. Wage-workers—their earnings and expenses.
(Kansas. Labor and Indus. Stats., Bur. of. 3. ann. rpt., 1888, pp. ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1902)
"With tables of wages, and cost of living. Wage-workers—their earnings and expenses.
(Kansas. Labor and Indus. Stats., Bur. of. 3. ann. rpt., 1888, pp. ..."
6. The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell: Containing a Biographical by William Rhinelander Stewart (1911)
"A living wage for those who do the mechanical part of the work; because if they
do not receive a living wage they will cease to work, either because they ..."
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