What is "workpeople"

Usage examples of "workpeople".

The Allendale cot-houses are very old, and I will never consent to have my workpeople as badly lodged as they have been.

And he then strove to draw up a notice to his workpeople, to inform them that the factory would remain closed until the day after the funeral.

When Frank spoke of his business, which he understood, he was wise, and some observations which he made the other day, on the management of his workpeople, would have been thought original if they had been printed.

Amid the crowds of workpeople, Jane Snowdon made what speed she might.

At last, the long convalescence ended, Walter was carried away to his father, with every possible precaution against fatigue and exposure, and an army of workpeople was turned into Mrs.

Lilia enjoyed settling into the house, with nothing to do except give orders to smiling workpeople, and a devoted husband as interpreter.

Down in one of the hamlets there was a forge to which all the workpeople who wanted any tools sharpened carried their instruments, the smith being able to put a better edge on.

The machinery was stopped sharply, as far as possible, by the miscellaneous workpeople, to whom a fight was a boon above price, and with shrill and clamorous outcries they gathered round the young man where he stood, panting, like a wounded animal at bay.

But I do not travel much in the North of England, so I asked a friend of mine, whose dealings are with the industrial North, what the workpeople of Lancashire and Yorkshire think of the War.

If any civilian employer of labour wants to have willing workpeople, let him take a hint from the Army.

Let him live with his workpeople, and share all their dangers and discomforts.

It may have been a summons to the workpeople of some manufactory, it may have been like all the other experiences of that strange night.

Alfiero howled to it in his tragical manner, and Harald, at the head of his workpeople, returned from the field.

I have decided to follow the principle laid down by makers of cream cakes and sweetmeats, that of allowing their workpeople to eat as much as they wish of the product they are making.

The houses of the workpeople at Blarney are neat and trim, white and clean, and a repose to the eyes of beholders, sick of slouching thatch and bulging mud walls.