The term "fair wage" is typically appended onto "fair trade", as part of its definition. Fair trade, by definition, seeks to provide a fair wage to disadvantaged workers within the local context, and does not necessarily provide fair wage as defined by developing countries that have legislated the definition of fair wage for their workers. The overall concept of fair wage is one that is designed to empower disadvantaged workers and assist them in leading lives in partnership with rather than in subjugation to traders and manufacturers.
Fair wage
Last updated, 10/14/2008
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- nugrahaarief - @enjelly_enjelly yeeaaahh..you better do it..I'll double your wage, fair enough rite? :p
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- VeteranAirborne - @anjwolf @Janine999 yeah 2 reasons high business taxes and the unions pushing the labor costs in the name of fair living wage
- Teresa1908 - The govt used to tax wealth, now it taxes wages, and a govt cannot run on wage taxes alone, everyone has to pay their fair share.
- Rebecca_Sugrue - We Want a "Fair Tax" NOW!: It takes the wage earner's money before he or she receives their paycheck. There is not... http://bit.ly/aoBv8B
- InclinedSoul - RT @kjproducerk: why r RICH folks so CheaP & don't like to pay their employees a fair wage? #random
- ibew595 - RT @JerryBrown2010: No tolerance for contractors who deny a fair wage and subject workers to potentially deadly working conditions. http://bit.ly/drXYFZ
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