salariat

People who for years had been ground down by high prices for the commonest necessities, considered seriously the question of the "salariat" joining forces with organizing labour under a banner that might be red.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

In spite of its own interests in restraining a rise in prices, the old official "salariat" is likely to be obstructive to any such innovations.

War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

Down-sizing, delayering, outsourcing and reengineering haunt the suburbs as well as the inner cities, mocking the commitments and hollowing out the institutions which were once the lodestars of the salariat.

Archive 2009-08-01 John M 2009

For sure, the EU is a huge apparatus, staffed by thousands of rent-seekers and supported by a massive salariat which depends for its position and influence on EU action.

An institution in decay Richard 2006

He had no proper civil service available to control large public works; it was impossible to change the American technicians at one blow from quasi-financial operators to a candid, devoted public salariat.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

From the beginning of the mechanical age, the men of science, the technical experts, the inventors and discoverers, the foremen and managers and organizers, had been essentially of the salariat.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

It was Taine who famously described the Jacobin revolution as the product of an impoverished salariat, an oversupply of educated labour: "students in garrets, bohemians in lodgings, physicians without patients and lawyers without clients in lonely Offices…so many Marats, Robespierres, and St Justs in embryo."

The Guardian World News Paul Mason 2011

VISAKHAPATNAM: With yet another Union Budget approaching, the salariat and the corporate sector are abuzz with speculation over tax proposals.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

VISAKHAPATNAM: With yet another Union Budget approaching, the salariat and the corporate sector are abuzz with speculation over tax proposals.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

But denied the resources that might allow them to work their way out, watching the area become a playground for a leisure-rich salariat, and seeing their own status as the newest immigrants supplanted by Somalis and the new wave of white settlers from Russia, Kosovo and Lithuania, these Bangladeshis are finding themselves slowly, subtly estranged from the ghetto they called home.

Sukhdev Sandhu · Come hungry, leave edgy: Brick Lane · LRB 9 October 2003 Sukhdev Sandhu 2019