All of these jobs paid only starvation wages.

He kept miners on starvation wages and answered reform attempts with force.

They are hard workers, he said, whose desire to earn a living had left them vulnerable to accepting starvation wages.

To working for starvation wages without safety, health care, security now or later or anything else that makes life decent?

She agreed, once I promised to beat their starvation wage.

These factories frequently employ children, pay starvation wages and intimidate union organizers.

For the increasing number of those without, there was only what unaided brute labor would buy: starvation wages.

For the workers, however, there are starvation wages and permanent austerity.

They were also prepared to agree to not being insured against accidents and to work illegally for starvation wages.

Bonuses for starvation wages and environmental pollution? That is ironic to say the least!