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• wage — [weɪdʒ] noun [countable] also wages HUMAN RESOURCES money that someone earns according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that they work, especially money that is paid each week: • The average hourly wage in the industry is $8. • Workers were …   Financial and business terms

• Work-life balance — The expression work life balance was first used in the late 1970s to describe the balance between an individual s work and personal life. (New Ways to Work and the Working Mother s Association in the United Kingdom). In the United States, this… …   Wikipedia

• Wage curve — The wage curve is the term used to describe the negative relationship between the levels of unemployment and wages that arises when these variables are expressed in local terms. According to David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald (1994, p. 5), the… …   Wikipedia

• wage — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} (also wages) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ competitive (esp. AmE), decent, fair, good, high ▪ inadequate, low, meagre/meager (esp …   Collocations dictionary

• 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

• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act — The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA, USStatute|104|193|110|2105|1996|08|22) is a United States federal law considered to be a fundamental shift in both the method and goal of federal cash assistance …   Wikipedia

• work, history of the organization of — Introduction       history of the methods by which society structures the activities and labour necessary to its survival. work is essential in providing the basic physical needs of food, clothing, and shelter. But work involves more than the use …   Universalium

• 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

• work, subjective experience of — In contrast to the relatively stable ideologies which constitute a work ethic , sociology also looks at the way work is actually experienced by individuals and groups. This includes orientations to work, attitudes in the job, job motivations, and …   Dictionary of sociology

• wage — I UK [weɪdʒ] / US noun [countable] Word forms wage : singular wage plural wages *** wage or wages a) an amount of money that you earn for working, usually according to how many hours or days you work each week or month daily/hourly/weekly wage… …   English dictionary

• wage — wage1 [ weıdʒ ] noun count ** wage or wages an amount of money that you earn for working, usually according to how many hours or days you work each week or month: daily/hourly/weekly wage They re protesting about low wages. a. only before noun… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English