Sentences with phrase «as labourers»

If our personal and professional lives were the same, then we would simply exist as labourers, living in our offices, relating to others through credit transactions, merchandise distribution, and services rendered.

EJF's new report, «Slave Nation» exposes how the Government of Uzbekistan continues to lie to the international community while routinely compelling hundreds of thousands of children as labourers in the country's annual cotton harvest, highlights below.

Oppieplaas had its origin as a labourers house, and has been lovingly restored into a small but cosy self - catering cottage.

As many as 275 people will work on the project during peak construction as labourers, technicians, truck drivers, and dozens of other specialties.

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

1946: After the war, Horst returns home but as a former member of the National Socialist Party is unable to return to teaching and takes a job as a labourer in a textile mill in Zittau.

Responding to both the residency and the conditions of increasing globalisation, the projects explore technology's effects on geopolitics, the linguistics and semiotics of maritime shipping, the role of the artist as labourer, individual and collective memory, collaborations with industrial entities, and surveillance, among other themes.

The artist regards himself merely as a labourer and his paintings as «ready - mades» that are produced by exploring the possibilities by conjoining pre-existent products (the paint, the paint - brush and the canvas).

«Now, when landlords come to me for borrowing seed, now I can laugh,» says Narsamma, 55, a dynamic woman who once worked as a labourer, but has now traveled to London, Peru, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, demonstrating their methods to local farmers.

Ms. Greco worked as a labourer at a lumber yard, earning an annual income of $ 58,000.

The claimant's son (the deceased) was aged 17 when he started work as a labourer with C. Work was being carried out to refurbish buildings at a retail park.

Not exact matches

To compensate, the government allowed farmers to hire Mexican workers — known as braceros, Spanish for «manual labourers» — on a temporary basis.

Generally, when automation and the use of technology go up, the need for labourers go down, this is known as technological unemployment and is an old phenomenon.

Some Dalits integrated themselves into the colonial system by joining the army or by serving as indentured labourers in British colonies.

The story Jesus told reflects the conditions of first - century Palestine and we are to assume, as his hearers certainly would have assumed, (that the labourers hired later in the day expected to receive a part of a denarius, a denarius being a regular payment for one day's labour.

I got a job as a builder's labourer and was earning good money.

Hasn't the UFC sold Ngannou as a giant guy that grew up in a kind of crappy country where he worked as a child labourer?

Footballers — and sportsmen — are an elite group of people who can be classed as highly skilled labourers — they can do what the normal man at the stands can not.

We could, for example, use CPI inflation as a time series reflecting what the bourgeoisie wish to pay the average social labourer and then do time series to work out the number of units of social labourer are consumed per rich person's wealth.

He started out life as a farm labourer before becoming a miner.

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How about the descendants of the 300,000 - odd Rwandans brought to Eastern Congo between 1928 and 1956 as migrant labourers?

Meanwhile Citi News has gathered that parents in the region are paid a meagre GHC50 in exchange of their children who are usually exploited as slaves and labourers on the Volta Lake.

It was variously described throughout the evening as the «working class», the «manual labourer» and the «self - made man».

Sounding an optimistic note, she is adamant that the fiscal responsibility preached by Westminster Conservatives will resonate with manual labourers, as will the Conservatives» commitment to low taxes.

It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other men: for this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others.

«I think that as a state, we need to connect those who benefit big time, those who are up there taking a lot of the profit, and make sure that when we arrest those on the ground, we are able to tie the labourers to the oga [boss],» Mr. Sowatey stated.

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

Beginning as workwear for cowboys, miners, and any manual labourer who needed sturdy clothing, and originally being called XX, Levi 501 jeans managed to combine the strength of raw denim with rivet reinforcements, making jeans that could take a kicking while not being a struggle to move around in.

That makes the film patchwork and episodic, but it also makes On the Road a rich ensemble, with memorable cameos from Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee, Alice Braga as a migrant labourer, and Steve Buscemi as an uptight travelling companion who shares an eye - watering night with Dean.

Where it does excel is in finding new angles from which to consider the Holocaust without dwelling on it — the very idea of an assembly line inside a prison camp where the skilled labourers are sure they'll be killed as soon as their project is finished will have a terrifying resonance for anyone who works hard for their money (as will the acquisition of a ping - pong table as singularly absurd incentive for a job well done).

Trade unions were formed to challenge the logic of the market, whereby competition between isolated labourers was experienced by workers as a constant downward pressure on pay and conditions.

He is of Romany descent; his father is a farm labourer, and his grandmother, who brought him up, and claims to have second sight, works at the Abbey as a cleaner — but Dan, who has won a scholarship to Cambridge, is on the cusp of change, about to abandon his home, his family and his class.

Thus the average San Pedrano participated in the industry as wage labourer rather tha as an independent farmer.

You can take a breather in the lovely gardens of the Jardins des Compagnies, or visit one of the fascinating museums, such as the famous Blue Penny Museum, or the Aapravasi Ghat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was the landing point for labourers after the abolition of slavery in 1834.

His chronic asthma would have excluded him from military service, but he insisted on registering as a conscientious objector and worked as an agricultural labourer for three years until doctors ordered him to desist.

The skeleton pattern references the human remains still visible in Ancient Egyptian labourers» houses near the Luxor temple, as well as the massacre of 62 tourists near the city in 1997.

«The Montmartre as an Area for Outsiders and Social Change» introduces the visitor to the inhabitants of the district, its labourers, beggars, clochards, and washerwomen, but also to the people who participated in demonstrations in these politically and socially agitating days.

Venice Biennale exhibition compares the harsh conditions of 19th century labourers with controversial modern working practices such as zero - hours contracts and workplace surveillance

Registered as a conscientious objector in World War II, Heron worked as an agricultural labourer in Cambridgeshire before he was signed off for ill health.

After finishing his art education, Douaihy returned to Ehden to paint its four seasons, the coast as well as the life of farmers and labourers in the mountains.

The Labourers who built the tombs of Pharoahs were on upper middle class, as it were, paid in grain which they traded in the markets.

As the price of urban land is high, factory buildings are not spacious enough, and the tenements of labourers are also very small.

The time is filled up with labour, whether the labourers make high use of technology (such as document search engines, etc.) or not.

It serves a broad client base of trade unions, including labourers, education and hospital employees, university faculty and municipal employees, as well as lawyers, physicians and judges.

One consequence of this law was that men of Japanese origin between the ages of 14 and 45 were taken into custody and consigned to work as road camp labourers in the British Columbia interior or on farms in the Prairies.

This man was not wealthy and, as a skilled labourer, often had to travel for weeks at a time to where the work was.

Crown Metal argued that inappropriate weight has been given to Mr. Di Tomaso» age and length of service, yet insufficient weight to the character of his employment (as he was not a manager, but rather an unskilled labourer).

Munish Chopra worked as a blender / labourer with Easy Plastic Containers Limited.

Japanese immigration policy does not accept foreign unskilled labourers who may support Japanese working mothers as a nanny or a house keeper, as opposed to some other developed countries.