Sentences with phrase «day laborers worked»

In the world that Jesus knew, day laborers worked for wages because, for whatever reason, they had lost their access to the patronage system that gave them a share in the harvest.

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.

We day laborers work on the land, but we do not own the land.

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There likely are additional North Korean day laborers who work in China under cross-border provincial agreements, he added.

She had to leave her boys with a sister so she could work in a coconut estate as a day laborer, while her husband, who is completely illiterate, works in a chili grinding mill.

By the time of Jesus we see this process already far advanced: large estates owned by absentee landlords, managed by stewards, and worked by tenant farmers, day laborers, and slaves.

Matthew evidently understands it so, for he gives here (20:1 - 16) the parable about the laborers who were hired at different hours of the day to work in a vineyard, but were all paid the same wages for their day's work; and at the end of the parable he says, «So the last will be first, and the first last.»

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

In the last analysis, men stand before God not otherwise than the day laborers of the parable, with their utter lack of any legal claim (that was the rule in those days), men who must not make comparisons or find fault if others receive a better assignment of work and therefore a larger reward (Matt.

A Town of Oyster Bay ordinance restricting day laborers from soliciting work on the streets is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled.

He also worked as a day laborer and is the first in his family to go to college.

«These women were forced to work 12 to 15 hours a day and got no overtime,» said Gonzalo Carreon of the Don Bosco Workers Inc., a Port Chester day laborers organization.

Also, we catch some glimpses of carpenters, day laborers, and assistants, so it seems like he doesn't do all that much hands - on work.

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Synopsis: During the Great Depression, ex-boxer James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) works as a day laborer until his former manager Joe Gould (Paul Giamatti) o...

Based on the first major work of Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Steinbeck, this rousing tale of farm laborers fighting for a few more dollars a day takes on modern relevance as workers across the U.S. continue the struggle for a living wage.

and the Congress of Day Laborers began working together more than six years ago after realizing that their struggles for LGBTQ liberation, the human right to move freely, and the fight against criminalization are inherently and inextricably linked.

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.

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.»

A Los Angeles - based artist best known for his portraits of Latino day laborers, John Sonsini adds a conceptual twist to his portraiture by paying his subjects their normal hourly working wages to sit as his painting models.

He started working as an undocumented day laborer before becoming an artist.

In Sonsini's work, the day laborers are removed from their context and painted without defined backgrounds, without clear, individual identities.

Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is thrilled to present Labor Days a solo exhibition of mixed media works by Michael Pribich that reference Cocineros (food workers) and laborers of all kinds.

Opening: «John Sonsini» at Ameringer McEnery Yohe A Los Angeles - based artist best known for his portraits of Latino day laborers, John Sonsini adds a conceptual twist to his portraiture by paying his subjects their normal hourly working wages to sit as his painting models.

«You have the day laborer saying saying «this is mainly for the young professionals who are working in Downtown LA.»

Her husband is a day laborer who works when he can find employment.

Here is a list of some job duties that a cleaning laborer is expected to perform on a typical work day:

One of the first things that a paving laborer is expected to do on any typical day at work is... Read More»

Take a look at some tasks that a construction laborer is expected to perform on a typical work day.

By the time I evicted them, they had lived without utilities for four months, the basement was nasty, and the house smelled so bad that day laborers refused to work in it.