bare subsistence

The laborer does not get this product, "at least not as laborer; he gains a bare subsistence by his work."

The basis of this custom is the knowledge that women can always be induced to work for a bare subsistence measured at 10s.

It is certainly true that any aid given to the child will tend meanwhile to keep the wages at bare subsistence rates.

At Halifax he notes that many poor women who earned a bare subsistence by spinning, are now in a very wretched condition.

He is obliged to part with the whole value of his labour, and content himself with bare subsistence in return.