truck system

Japanese: truck system(英語表記)trucksystem
truck system

...wages paid not in currency but in goods or substitutes such as the products of a company, food, or housing. Also called the truck system, it was widespread in the early stages of capitalist development. In Britain, sometimes the employer paid the whole of the wage in kind or part of the wage in vouchers that could be used only in shops run by the employer or his associates, called tommy shops.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "truck system" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…通貨によってではなく,企業の製品や食料品,住居などの現物またはそれにかわるもので支払われる賃金。トラック・システムtruck system(実物賃金制度)ともよばれ,資本主義発展の初期に広範に存在した。イギリスでは,ときに,雇主は賃金の全額を現物で支払ったり,雇主またはその仲間の経営するトミー・ショップtommy shopsとよばれた売店でのみ使用可能な金券で賃金の一部を支払った。…

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