"Standard of living" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the wide feeling of labor unrest? At the same time, while the average standard of living, as a result of better education, has been considerably raised and the retail prices of food have risen 9.3 per cent. since 1900, wages in that period have only risen 3 per cent. Consequently the manual workers find themselves in straitened, ...
— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House
... of production it may be, the producer is going to receive a much larger share; the employer a much smaller. And the producer is going to enjoy a better standard of living, opportunities for leisure and self-cultivation; and the three spectres that haunt him from childhood to grave—lack of money to make a beginning; fear for a family left on its own resources by his death; terror of poverty in ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers |
