In all lands where capitalistic production spread, the two classes grew farther apart, the distinction between possessor and wage-earner increased.
Many feel that the law of property is defective when this is possible, although at the same time the average income of the wage-earner is increasing.
The wage-earner and the salaried man are rarely quite without material wealth.
The wage-earner gets the competitive value of his services, securing in most cases much more than a bare subsistence.
As profits thus disappear, the average wage-earner is correspondingly uplifted, a conclusion quite as hopeful as that of Walker.
The sympathies of most men favor the wage-earner so strongly that they hesitate to express an opinion in any way unfavorable to his efforts to raise wages.
No wage-earner can be expected to give hundreds of dollars out of his income toward building a church when the next month may find him compelled to move to some distant city.
Yet it does not have any program for bringing about wage returns, permanency of employment, or interest in business that would make it possible or desirable for the wage-earner to finance his own church building.
That means, again, ease and cheapness of transportation in order that families may live in decent homes and yet the chief wage-earner go back and forth to his work without too great strain of strength or purse.
Fourteen years of age is the norm in the listing of youthful workers and the age limits should be revised to suit that rise in the legal age of the child wage-earner as generally practised now in the United States.
When the number of laborers at the beginning and the close of the decade are considered the annual income of the wage-earner at the close of the decade is actually $7 per year less than ten years ago.
Under perfect competition the entrepreneur cannot have any of the amount B'C'D' left in his hands after meeting the claims that the wage earner makes on him.
Thus did the Caucasian wage-earner score his first and signal victory in reversing what his opponents proclaimed were "principles coeval with the foundation of our government.
The immigrant comes as a wage-earner, and the American wage-earner bears the initial cost of his Americanization.
The Chinaman or Japanese in Hawaii or California is praised and sought after by the employer and householder, but dreaded by the wage-earner and domestic.
As an ambitious proprietor the increase goes into his permanent property, but the ambitious wage-earner accepts a lower rate of pay.
He endured more than the poverty of the wage-earner without his freedom from care, and all the anxiety of the capitalist without his hope of compensating profits.
The slave received subsistence--clothing and shelter--and the wage-earner who could get more than these out of his wages was rarely fortunate.
There could not be a more striking proof of the downward tendency in the welfare of the wage-earner and the farmer than the deteriorating quality and dwindling volume of foreign immigration which marked the period.
But the capitalists gave neither the wage-earner nor the farmer enough of these money tokens to buy back the equivalent of the product of his labor.
But," said I, "the wage-earner received wages and the slave received nothing.
The wage-earner chose between laboring for an employer or starving.
The prospect of rising as a motive to reconcile the wage-earner or the poor man in general to his subjection, what did it amount to?
The main difference was that the master expended the subsistence wage of the chattel slave for him while the earner expended it for himself.
One point of real superiority at least you must admit the wage-earner had over the chattel slave.
Of the two great divisions of the working masses it would be hard to say whether the wage-earner or the farmer had suffered most by the changed order.
Even the humblest wage-earner was on the books of half a dozen tradesmen, while a man of substance might be down in scores or hundreds, and this without speaking of men not engaged in commerce.
Over the past decade, tourism has also increased in importance and is a major earner of foreign exchange and a source of new jobs.
Over the past decade tourism has also increased in importance and is a major earner of foreign exchange and a source of new jobs.
The salary-earner or the professional, when once his product is turned out and paid for, also surrenders all claim upon the product.
What else could any reasonable wage-earner or professional expect or desire?
In all of them the wage-earner is on exactly the same footing as the salary-earner or the professional piece-worker.
The salary-earner and the professional are only employed when somebody wants them.
I am very glad that it is so, for organising production is a very difficult and complicated and risky business, and from all the risks of it the wage-earner is saved.
Health The young wage-earner of New York is much handicapped by her poor physical condition; heredity, poor habits of life, and unsanitary homes show their effects upon her.
When the amount of gold and silver in circulation is increased, prices go up, but wages do not correspondingly rise; and the wage-earner is unconsciously robbed.
About this period he becomes a wage-earner and for the next 30 or 40 years devotes most of his time and energy to making a living.
The typical girl leaves school about the same time, becomes a wage-earner for a few years, then marries and spends the rest of her life keeping house and rearing children.
These things are fundamental, and any one of them may well take precedence over the matter of whether the tastes of the future wage-earner run to wood, brick, stone, or steel.
Part I, the Negro as a Wage-earner and Part II, the Negro in Business, were to be supplemented by Part III, the Negro in the Professions.
It should be remarked that the wage-earner in his migration to secure higher wages seldom takes into consideration the higher cost of living in New York City.
The contemporary wage-earner is no longer satisfied with the economic results of being merely an American citizen.
What the wage-earner needs, and what it is to the interest of a democratic state he should obtain, is a constantly higher standard of living.
Regional tension and the continuing Palestinian uprising (intifadah) have contributed to a sharp drop in tourism - a key foreign exchange earner - to the lowest level since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
They might even sustain a method for enforcing in the courts the collection of wages, where the single wage-earner often accepts the half loaf in a compromise rather than meet the expense and loss of time involved in a law suit.
The wage-earner feels the immediate loss of his usual opportunities.
A wage-earner must therefore be one who sells his powers, whatever they may be, for the use of another, bringing his own services rather than the products of those services to the best market he can find.
The necessary reticence of business managers and the frequent arbitrary decisions as to wages help the wage-earner to feel that his interests conflict with those of his employer.
Its advantages come to the wage-earner directly in multiplying employments and in multiplying the demand by cheapening products.
As the gate of the public system of institutions it should stand, always open and ready to receive the homeless, wandering wage-earner who may claim its hospitality.
Though our missions and churches are filled with many grand good people, the crucial treatment of the wage-earner is the underlying reason for the crumbling of our Christian faith.
Knowing too well the result to the homeless, destitute wage-earner of disobedience to the scion of the law, I quickly left.
Capitalist and wage-earner sit at the same board, having equal voice in the plans for redeeming the city from partisan machine control.
The independent wage-earner found his hope of political recognition in allegiance to the political machines.
The girl was the only regular wage-earner in the family.
The wage earner consumes few products of the Steel Trust, the farmer and small manufacturers, many.
Every wage earner is either a Socialist already, or he is on the high road to becoming one.
Here it is, however, that the wage earner can do something in self-protection, for the level of prices may be in some measure affected by his policy in handling his earnings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
