There are, at least, three classes of female workers whose competition helps to keep wages below the point of bare subsistence in the employments which they enter.
This low, degraded and degrading work enables large numbers of poor inefficient workers to eke out a bare subsistence.
The existence of a constant standing "pool" of unemployed was, as we saw, responsible for keeping the wages of low-skilled labour down to a bare subsistence wage.
But it was quite reasonable that the vast majority should be kept in a situation where they could not be confident even of a bare subsistence.
In other words, a "bare subsistence wage" does not gain by a fall in the price of the articles which belong to its standard of comfort.
The basis of this custom is the knowledge that women can always be induced to work for a bare subsistence measured at 10s.
They are comparatively few who struggle among these busy waves for a bare subsistence.
He worked in a glass-factory, earning a bare subsistence.
If bare subsistence is assumed to be the end of man upon the earth, most of our modern inventions are useless.
In the early pioneer days the country community for a similar reason was much in thought and feeling, because then men were seeking a bare subsistence in the contest with nature.
But in times when a bare subsistence is the condition with which many are confronted, men are drawn together and the community becomes the unit of thought and feeling.
Instead of the standards of a time of plenty we are confronted with problems of bare subsistence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bare subsistence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
