Crossword clues for workers
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n. (plural of worker English)
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Workers is a book of 143 portraits of migrant workers who participated in the construction of the Olympic Green in Beijing, China in the lead up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. The book is the work of British artist Helen Couchman and consists primarily of photographs of the workers on the building site. The workers were photographed with the iconic buildings of the Beijing Olympics: The Beijing National Stadium , known colloquially as the "Bird's Nest" , and the Beijing National Aquatics Center , also known as the "Water Cube" .
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Portrait of Zhang Gao and his signature from the series Workers 工人
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Usage examples of "workers".
Strikebreakers were brought in, and some workers went back to work, but the strikers did win a twelve-hour day and nine hours on Saturday.
The manufacturers offered higher wages to bring the strikers back into the factories, but without recognizing the unions, so that workers still had to face the employer as individuals.
Irish Catholic weavers and native-born Protestant skilled workers over issues of religion.
Irish workers were segregated, the excuse being that they would do violence against one another.
The country had been in economic depression since 1873, and by 1877 farmers and workers were beginning to rebel.
Uncontaminated by the diseases of the factory town, tliey were also protected from hearing the complaints of their workers or suffering mental depression from dismal and squalid surroundings.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, using immigrant workers who signed contracts pledging everyone in the family to work for a year.
The factory workers in Lynn, who began to organize in the 1830s, later started a militant newspaper, the Awl.
Ten days after that, a procession often thousand striking workers, including delegations from Salem, Marblehead, and other towns, men and women, inarched through Lynn, in what was the greatest demonstration of labor to take place in New England up to that time.
Irish shoe and leather workers joined Yankees in flatly rejecting the myth of success.
He thinks the struggle of European workers for political democracy, even while they sought economic equality, made diein class-conscious.
American workers, however, had already gained political democracy by the 1830s, and so their economic battles could be taken over by political parties that blurred class lines.
Then, for three days, crowds of white workers marched through the city, destroying buildings, factories, streetcar lines, homes.
In Boston the dead were Irish workers attacking an armory, who were fired on by soldiers.
Just before the Civil War, in Jackson, Mississippi, slaves working in a cotton factory received twenty cents a day for board, and white workers at the same factory received thirty cents.