truck system

During this period a campaign was conducted against the company for their alleged support of the truck system.

He asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill against the truck system at the end of the year.

However, the truck system has not been able to handle the increase in soybean production.

What we are about to receive now, is a sort of truck system, which I do not regard as strictly necessary.

He also attacked the Truck system in which miners were paid by kind rather than cash.

The British trucking system being what it is, we were delayed by four days while waiting for our equipment to arrive.

A specific kind of truck system, in which credit advances are made against future work is known as debt bondage.

Since that time, Cat has been assembling the most comprehensive autonomous truck system in the world.

But the security in the trucking system is woefully inadequate, the Congressional report said.

In truck systems, apparently "independent" farmers were reduced to dependent status through debt.

Roberts actions in court led to her getting her wages and started a large campaign against the Truck system.

We need a better truck system, and better fuel economy for them.'

Many employers operated the truck system, and paid workers in part or totally by tokens.

Also, everything that the immigrants consumed had to be purchased from the landowner (see truck system).

The Truck system, in which employees are paid with credit that can only be redeemed from the employers' goods or store.

In some places they formed the core of a company shop economy (Truck system), circulating as private currencies.

The truck system is repressed on lines similar to those in Austria and Germany.

In Britain the truck system was sometimes referred to as the Tommy system.

The new owners tried to cut labor costs using the truck system, paying workers in scrip redeemable only at the company store.

On the ranche of another of these landholders you may find our old friend, the truck system, in full operation.

He fought hard against the prevailing truck system and drew political cartoons lampooning its deficiencies.

Others work unreasonably long hours and are paid subsistence wages that (in practice) may only be spent in the truck system.

We are working to make the port trucking system a less polluting, more competitive generator of good quality jobs for harbor-area residents.

City officials concede that the trucking system is expensive and does not help air quality or traffic congestion, but say it is only temporary.

It was a closed economic truck system in which cash was replaced by tokens such as leather buttons with his portrait.