social wage

The government was also to act on the social wage.

A number of improvements were made to the social wage during Keating's five years in office.

We hear about farm subsidies and the social wage.

The White Paper also stressed the importance of what is now called the social wage.

Wages for housework is part of general social wage campaigns in late capitalism.

It must be demonstrated to the ordinary worker what he gained from public expenditure, the so-called 'social wage'.

The European Union can lend the Member States a helping hand in reducing social wage costs.

The promise of the social wage, enshrined in the law, had given the miners remarkable room for political manoeuvre to humanise their spartan communities.

The industry was unique in that the law prescribed for it health and recreational provisions, what we now call the social wage, for most of this century.

By 1991, despite decline in real wage levels under Hawke, household real incomes rose as a result of social wage and employment changes.

Full employment and income policy helped to reduce wage differentials, while subsidies on coal, gas, and electricity increased the social wage.

Job protection, family leave, and a standard 38-hour workweek had been extended to most workers, whose living standards were protected via superannuation, social wage improvements, and tax cuts.

A social wage had been provided for those unable for whatever reason to earn, or those whose earning capacity had been interrupted by illness, injury, and unemployment.

Nineteenth century feminists had adhered too strongly to liberal individualism, and were too suspicious of experts and the state to make demands for an increase in the social wage.

The Hawke Government did, however, significantly increase the social wage as part of its Accord with the trade unions, a social democratic policy continued by the Keating Government.

A slowdown in productivity growth, fierce international competition, and permanent upward pressures on direct and social wages combined to squeeze the profits and put a brake on the accumulation process.

In modern times, the fact that the state has a big effect on wages and the value of labour power has given rise to the concepts of the social wage and collective consumption.

If the state claims just as much money from workers through taxes and levies as it pays out to them, then it is of course doubtful whether the state really "pays a social wage".

The larger society seems to be caught up in a similar cycle: cutting public services for the poor, which are sometimes referred to collectively as the "social wage," while investing ever more heavily in prisons and cops.

From where I'm standing things are going up in price, the gov'ts cutting the social wage, and the the minimum wage doesn't have any resemblance to Joseph Rowntree's Minimum Income Standard.

Social wage took many forms; it could be improved health, education, transport or subsidies food which was the responsibility of the state, or the improvement (or the introduction) of sanitation and working facilities for instance.

Improvements to the social wage included improved affordability of and access to key services such as health and child-care and health, together with large increases to payments for low-wage and jobless families with children.

Despite a fall in money wages under the ALP, the social wage of Australian workers was argued to have improved as a result of government reforms in health, social welfare, superannuation, and taxation.

Public spending had risen from 40 per cent to 45.5 per cent of gross domestic product in 1974-6, partly through heavy industrial subsidies and the cost of maintaining the 'social wage' through the social security system.

Labour's first fifteen months back in office - the era of the Social Contract between government and unions, the partnership meant to curb soaring inflation in return for an improved 'social wage'- was a very one-sided affair.