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wage .
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Surely you mean ‘acceptable consultation standards for respect enforcement’ and ‘the positive promotion of aquired goods redistribution for the unwaged’ loove your blog, nice to know there are sane people on the frontline on October 7, 2009 at 4: 12 pm PJ
How “Police Performance” Fraud Works. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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It is a ticketed event, costing £7 waged/£6 unwaged; tickets can be had from the Mitchell Library itself, or by phone booking on 0844 847 1683.
AYE WRITE – the Glasgow Book Festival (I`ll be there!) « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2010
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Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Of course, the Free Family of Olema chose this mode of existence, while even those among Boydston's subjects who engaged in waged work could not avoid this strategy, because the purchasing power of prevailing wages could not replace the unwaged labor power that women and children provided to the household economy. back
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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The licence fee is a form of poll tax and for many low paid/unwaged it represents the sum equivalent to that spent on survival for a week or more.
The BBC is its own worst enemy Mark Reckons 2009
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For this is what his government offers millions of low-waged or unwaged families (one in five UK kids lives in a workless household, the highest proportion in Europe).
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When we expand political economy to encompass women's unwaged labor, including the multitude of forms of emotional labor (which Anthony McMahon gathers under the rubric of "taking care of men"), then it becomes clear, according to sociologist Anna G. Jónasdóttir, that "men ... continually appropriate significantly more of women's life force and capacity than they themselves give back to women."
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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For this is what his government offers millions of low-waged or unwaged families (one in five UK kids lives in a workless household, the highest proportion in Europe).
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Much municipal facility is free or dead cheap to the unwaged anyway, so its academic really.
Anyone for Tennis? Jeff 2009
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It calls for a national dialogue to find effective ways to increase workplace flexibility, "rewarding the valuable but currently unwaged work within the family" and shape policies that can not only improve work/life balance but gender equality as well.
John de Graaf: A Peaceful Revolution: Are Britain's Tories More Progressive Than U.S. Democrats? 2008
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