Riis Other Half|page=23|passage=It is not to be assumed, of course, that the whole body of the population living in the tenements, of which New Yorkers are in the habit o£ speaking vaguely as “the poor,†or even the larger part of it, is to be classed as vicious or as poor in the sense of verging on beggary. New York’s wage-earners have no other place to live, more is the pity.
1942, John T. Dunlop and Benjamin Higgins, "“Bargaining Power†and Market Structures," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 50, no. 1 (Feb.), p. 24:The instance of a few buyers and many sellers in the factor market with many buyers and sellers in the product market is typified by the classic cases of unorganized wage-earners in company towns, for instance, textile and coal.
1968 , Ken Coates; Anthony Topham; Tony Topham , Industrial Democracy in Great Britain, During the past two years we have been at great pains to elaborate a constructive programme to be followed after the wage-earners had repudiated wagery.
