Word: waged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workers should be paid a living wage...
...turned her energies to a variety of reformist organizations, joining a circle of postsuffrage feminists dedicated to the abolition of child labor, the establishment of a minimum wage and the passage of legislation to protect workers. In the process she discovered that she had talents--for public speaking, for organizing, for articulating social problems. She formed an extraordinary constellation of lifelong female friends, who helped to assuage an enduring sense of loneliness. When Franklin was paralyzed by polio in 1921, her political activism became an even more vital force. She became Franklin's "eyes and ears," traveling the country gathering...
...things that would matter most in aprofessional and personal decision [for me],assuming that I could make a reasonable wage,[would be] the quality of my colleagues, thequality of my students, how cheerful my wholefamily would be," Rudenstine said...
...Zhang Jinming, 21, who comes from the poor inland province of Jiangxi, runs a stamping machine. "I work here because I have to earn a living, but it's boring work. When I have money, I'll go back," he says. [TIME used its own interpreters.] The average monthly wage is 600 renminbi, or $73. The company provides meals and living quarters in spartan although adequate dorm rooms that sleep 12 and offer individual storage closets and ceiling fans for the summer. In Vietnam, by comparison, the minimum wage is $40 a month, and workers must pay for such accommodations...
Another huge issue is the question of a fair wage. "Americans pay $100 for a pair of shoes that a worker gets $3 a day to make," says Kimberly Miyoshi of San Francisco's Global Exchange. "They pay Michael Jordan $40 million to endorse them. Can't they find more money to pay the workers?" The short answer is no. Corporations pay the going rate for labor wherever they are. And Nike maintains that the rate is good. Research conducted by Dartmouth College, for instance, found that Nike subcontractors in Indonesia and Vietnam paid above subsistence levels, allowing workers...