Wage labour — is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour under a contract (employment), and the employer buys it, often in a labour market. [Deakin, Simon; Wilkinson, Frank.… … Wikipedia
wage-stop — wage stop, British. the principle or policy of not allowing an unemployed person to receive more money from public funds than he would earn while working: »The wage stop is the device used to stop families receiving more in social security… … Useful english dictionary
wage stop — wage stop, British. the principle or policy of not allowing an unemployed person to receive more money from public funds than he would earn while working: »The wage stop is the device used to stop families receiving more in social security… … Useful english dictionary
Wage — For other uses, see WAGE (disambiguation). A wage is a compensation, usually financial, received by workers in exchange for their labor. Compensation in terms of wages is given to workers and compensation in terms of salary is given to employees … Wikipedia
wage earner — Synonyms and related words: blue collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free lancer, full time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer,… … Moby Thesaurus
Wage slavery — is a term first coined by the Lowell Mill Girls in 1836, [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YXT kSv1btIC pg=PA87 lpg=PA87 dq=lowell+%22wage+slavery%22 source=web ots=WsT3bkI 0G sig=w7N0JGBskFiUHReS 00amVMNaPY hl=en Artisans Into Workers: Labor… … Wikipedia
Full Employment in a Free Society — (1944) is a book by William Beveridge, author of the Beveridge Report.OverviewThe book begins with the thesis that because individual employers are not capable of creating full employment, it must be the responsibility of the state. Full… … Wikipedia
wage and salary — ▪ economics Introduction income derived from human labour. Technically, wages and salaries cover all compensation made to employees for either physical or mental work, but they do not represent the income of the self employed. Labour costs… … Universalium
Full employment — In macroeconomics, full employment is when all people looking for employment can find a job. The majority of mainstream economists believe that the unemployment rate is greater than 0% when there is full employment, corresponding to the technical … Wikipedia
Wage-fund doctrine — The Wage Fund Doctrine is an expression that comes from early economic theory that seeks to show that the amount of money a worker earns in wages, paid to them from a fixed amount of funds available to employers each year (capital), is determined … Wikipedia
wage theory — ▪ economics portion of economic theory that attempts to explain the determination of the payment of labour. A brief treatment of wage theory follows. For full treatment, see wage and salary. The subsistence theory of wages,… … Universalium