Example sentences for: low-wage

How can you use “low-wage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Whenever I put in a good word for the global economy--pointing out that international trade is not the source of all misfortunes, or that low-wage exporting benefits many poor people--I can count on receiving a pile of hate mail.

  • She describes how difficult it is to survive on $7 an hour and how nasty working conditions for low-wage service employees are and explains why it costs more to be poor than to be rich (e.g.

  • The surge in apparel imports in the 1980s came from low-wage countries, primarily the Asian “Big Four”—the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea.

  • Both provisions would raise Latin American labor costs, and thus dull NAFTA's adverse effect on some low-wage American workers.

  • Such moral outrage is common among the opponents of globalization--of the transfer of technology and capital from high-wage to low-wage countries and the resulting growth of labor-intensive Third World exports.


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