wage-earner

plural wage-earners

1. alternativeAlternative form of wage earner.

   During the past two years we have been at great pains to elaborate a constructive programme to be followed after the wage-earners had repudiated wagery.

   1968, Ken Coates, Anthony Topham, Tony Topham, Industrial Democracy in Great Britain, page 40

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   It is not to be assumed, of course, that the whole body of the population living in the tenements, of which New Yorkers are in the habit o£ speaking vaguely as “the poor,” or even the larger part of it, is to be classed as vicious or as poor in the sense of verging on beggary. New York’s wage-earners have no other place to live, more is the pity.

   1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Mixed Crowd”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 23

   The instance of a few buyers and many sellers in the factor market with many buyers and sellers in the product market is typified by the classic cases of unorganized wage-earners in company towns, for instance, textile and coal.

   1942, John T. Dunlop and Benjamin Higgins, "“Bargaining Power” and Market Structures," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 50, no. 1 (Feb.), p. 24