Sentences with phrase «american laborer»

Despite the presence of some well - known actors — including Ed Harris playing an American laborer who fled Depression - era America for work in Russia and Colin Farrell as a Russian mobster — a semidocumentary harshness hangs over these early scenes.

A night in coastal Portugal sees an itinerant American laborer (Anton Yelchin, in one of his last roles) and a restless French archaeology grad student (Lucie Lucas) meet for talk, sex and emotional fragmentation in Gabe Klinger's «Porto.»

In 2009 in Rockland County two black Spring Valley youths were charged with «hate crimes» for targeting a South American laborer for a mugging because they knew a man fitting such a description would be more likely to be carrying cash.

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He runs an illegal business poisoning trees in the woods, yet appears to be a boss who is well - liked by the African - American laborers he picks up every morning in his pickup truck.

The article mentions John Sonsini's portraits of Mexican - American laborers, at a gallery known best for important artists with aging reputations.

His sculptures represent presumably Mexican American laborers: one man who might be a gardener for a wealthy family supports the glass of a coffee table on his back, a woman supports a chair with the back of her thighs, and another woman — the exhibition's central figure — extends her arms out indifferently, suggesting her own body for the role of a hat stand.

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Second, the right to collective bargaining has been enshrined in law, and the results of these contract negotiations worked in combination with the supremacy and prosperity of American heavy industry in the mid-twentieth century to produce a previously undreamt of affluence for skilled laborers.

When my family moved to Arizona, I joined the tail end of the white evangelizers who hoped to bring faith and education to the Native American and Mexican laborer population that surrounded us.

The day laborers, maids and other working class African - Americans who used the Montgomery buses had heeded the call.

Meanwhile, ordinary Americans find themselves competing with low - wage laborers abroad and immigrants at home.

Beginning with the American revolution, artisans and then wage - laborers began to invert the familiar story about virtue.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Florida Teamsters, and the Laborers» International Union of North America had previously endorsed Murphy, his campaign said.

Tagged with: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act apprenticeship Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc. stimulus Wisconsin Laborers District Council

The laborers rallied outside of the the Roosevelt Hotel, where the American Wind Energy Association investor conference was being held in New York City, protesting EDF Renewable Energy's hiring practices, the California - based company involved in the wind farm project.

From time use surveys in 17 European countries and 2 American countries (located from 35º to 61º latitude) he characterizes laborer's primary activities and get them positioned along the daily and yearly cycle of light and dark.

The Back Story: Also known as a skullcap or knit cap, the beanie was once solely associated with American blue - collar laborers who used the brimless cap to keep hair out of work's way.

Legend has it that an American moneyman agreed to finance Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves with one stipulation — that the role of the common laborer whose meager capital is stolen be played by Cary Grant.

Eight short «American Worker Tributes» (16:03) celebrate and profile hard manual laborers (a longshoreman, a fisherman, etc.), starting with a Deepwater Horizon survivor.

Large sums (much of it taxed from laborers and farmers) were spent by these school committees, and their efforts reflected, Tocqueville thought, a widespread American desire to provide basic schooling as a route to opportunity and advancement.

Chrysler was an American man by all standards in those days, a self - taught engineer and entrepreneur who worked his way up the ladder from a skilled laborer, to the top of the first company he worked at: Buick.

One bitterly cold morning, driving to the train station, I noticed a group of Latin - American men huddled outside, waiting for day laborer jobs.

With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer, The Madonnas of Echo Park takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream.

A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, «the land that belongs to us again.»

The painting that gives the show its title, Late America, was painted just after the American presidential elections; in it a young boy draped in an American flag looks over a naked older man lying in a fetal position at the edge of a pool as two day laborers work in the background.

Working collaboratively, Calhoun and McCormick have documented the demise of manual laborers in the sugar cane fields of Louisiana; the dockworkers and longshoreman on the New Orleans waterfront; the sweet potato harvesters; and the displacement of African Americans after Katrina.

Robert McNeill, Laborer (Stevedore Longshoreman, Norfolk, Virginia), from the project The Negro in Virginia, 1938, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, © 1938, Robert McNeill, Museum purchase, 1993.72.10

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Labor, is charged with the colossal effort of protecting American industrial workers, including oil refinery and plant laborers, from negligent employers.

Chavez is considered a hero for farm laborers, and is regarded by millions as one of the greatest American civil rights leaders.

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