Example sentences of "[verb] worker ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the other side is the organised working class : by the end of the 1960s , after a long period of relatively full employment , the trade unions were in a strong position both in terms of wage bargaining and in terms of the defensive ‘ veto power ’ which they were able to exercise over changes at the point of production seen as threatening workers ' interests . |
| 32 | He did not foresee the rise of the new rentiers — the financial institutions collecting workers ' savings — yet these are more organised , powerful and ideologically-armed than the old-style rentiers ( even they have n't faded away ) . |
| 33 | A breakaway by Liverpool members of the NSFU in 1899 to form a Mersey Firemen , Engineroom and Stokehold Workers ' Union was more serious . |
| 34 | For example , capitalists in competition with each other could over-exploit their workforces , ruining workers ' productivity , and by immiserizing them render them incapable of absorbing factory outputs . |
| 35 | Zubatov 's experiments before 1905 had already exposed the impossibility of creating workers ' organizations without affecting the political order . |
| 36 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |
| 37 | This is due directly to the higher price of imported goods and imported raw materials , and indirectly to the rise in wages that will be necessary to maintain workers ' standard of living . |
| 38 | However , the ultimate aim of the legislation — to shed labour and alter workers ' consciousness so that they accept being sacked — remains the same . |
| 39 | However , there is little direct evidence as yet on how such schemes actually affect workers ' attitudes to the company performance . |
| 40 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 41 | Workers ' organisations were then created and expanded , with the assistance of patronage , but in order to defend workers ' interests . |
| 42 | Essentially the formal recognition of a union legitimises workers ' resistance , and this can immeasurably strengthen their bargaining position . |
| 43 | the internally oriented bourgeoisie possesses an objective interest in wage-led rather than externally-determined demand for its products … productivity increases will extend workers ' consumption into new commodities that were once considered luxury goods ( motorcycles , housing materials , and small appliances ) , which in turn will provide new areas of investment for the indigenous bourgeoisie . |
| 44 | Order is maintained through ‘ social expenses ’ policy ; accumulation is fostered directly by ‘ social investment ’ expenditures to reduce production costs ; and social cohesion is boosted by ‘ social consumption ’ spending , which boosts workers ' living standards ( and hence only indirectly contributes to increased profitability ) . |
| 45 | If prices were cut by 50 per cent , then employers in shops etc would have to cut workers ' wages by 50 per cent in order to stay in business . |
| 46 | The low capitalisation of industry together with its subordinate place to agriculture until fairly recently ( and an early development of the service sector of the economy ) has tended to limit workers ' bargaining power , and diversification made for greater difficulties of organisation . |