ill-paid

• “In his 1959 play, Wesker drew on his experience as a kitchen worker to create a drama that shows the skill, the speed and the crushing grind of ill-paid labour presided over by a bully.”

  The Guardian: Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review

• “In the next few weeks, however, ill-informed senators will meet with ill-paid representatives to reconcile their ill-conceived financial reform bills.”

  The Washington Post: Wonkbook: Spill in August; T-bills popular; nationalize BP?

• “We are losing jobs in both and shifting to non-tradable services, which are mostly low value-added, and thus ill-paid, jobs.”

  The Huffington Post: Ian Fletcher: The Death of the Postindustrial Dream

• “The unrest is bad PR for the multinationals involved, but it may ultimately be good news for China's ill-paid workers.”

  Newsweek: Labor’s Day in China

• “How does an executive become financially fatted to step step into and out of ill-paid public offices with the changes of administration in the US?”

  The Early Word: Blagojevich Fallout - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

• “The crews of these vessels, badly fed, ill-paid, and overwhelmed with fatigue during their six months voyage for Spain, have been secretly plotting a mutiny.”

  Did you know? An early Jules Verne story was set in Mexico.

• “She also falls short of a majority among the hard-working, ill-paid, under-educated whites she made such a big deal about attracting.”

  Poll: Nearly Half Of African Americans Want Hillary On Ticket

• “With legal jobs disappearing, growing numbers of unemployed youth are unsurprisingly drawn to what's still available -- illicit professions or jobs in the military and police that, in many countries, are ill-paid but allow access to bribes.”

  Michael T. Klare: Global Crime Wave?

• “One out of every four Afghan soldiers has quit or deserted the Afghan National Army in the last year, while the ill-paid, largely illiterate, hapless Afghan police with their “well-deserved reputation for stealing and extorting bribes,” not to speak of a drug abuse rate estimated at 15%, are, as its politely put, “years away from functioning independently”; and the insurgency is spreading to new areas of the country and reviving in others.”

  Tom Engelhardt: Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan

• “The other thing to remember is the fields then were much less talented - below the level of the top riders were lowly, ill-paid domestiques who today would not rate a spot in the pro peloton ... today you have any number of national champions, world record holders and so on contesting every race.”

  John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...

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