1. Of course, they are talking about millions of dollars, not subsistence wages . 2. Workers in 40 percent of sample countries earned less than subsistence wages . 3. Subsistence wages were indeed the case in parts of England.4. The biggest problem with Nike is that its overseas workers make wretched, below-subsistence wages . 5. A dollar fifty a day is not a subsistence wage in Ho Chi Minh City. 6. Others squatted on farms or worked for subsistence wages . 7. But many nations, he says, have no better hope than plants paying mere subsistence wages . 8. The capitalist, investor regime needed a laboring under-class in thrall to subsistence wages to maximize profits. 9. In a place like Haiti, subsistence wages may be undignified, but they are better than starvation. 10. The study estimated subsistence wages needed by four types of families in 40 different geographic areas.
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