For Hours of Labor, the artist investigates the current politics of economics and immigration by
hiring day laborers to create objects with him.
Not exact matches
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.»
So early in the morning he goes to the marketplace where
day laborers waited to get
hired, and
hired those he found there.
It contributed $ 500,000 to support
day -
laborer hiring sites across the city.
The city has
hired more than 5,000 thousand
day laborers this winter to help to shovel snow from bus stops and walkways, Sanitation Department Spokeswoman Kathy Dawkins said.
Mr. Levy was irate, but ultimately came to terms: He agreed to build a state - financed
hiring hall for immigrant
day laborers, and the Assembly extended the tax.