Many of the respondents had worked as a teacher for more than 20 years (33%); a sizeable percentage had worked around 10 years as a teacher (20%); and a small percentage had just begun working as a teacher (4%).
Next to Hafez's sizeable work is a painting of a wailing Umm Kulthum, the legendary Cairo singer, by George Bahgory.
When Ms Bonvicini first started making sizeable works, she says that their "hugeness was almost existential".
The research conducted by Edelman Berland on freelance workers, which includes segments which would normally be classed as casual labour, suggests that a sizeable proportion of those working casual may be doing so out of choice – for reasons of flexibility, or for opportunities to learn new skills.
One of the few positive aspects of Edin's book is when it catalogues how the earned income tax credit (EITC), a key platform of the 90s US welfare reforms, has lifted a sizeable segment of the working poor out of poverty.
A sizeable group (41%) reported working between 35 and 80 h a week, exceeding the Australian maximum 38-h workweek for full-time employees stipulated by the Fair Work Act 2009 (NSW).
Considering the latter part of one's career provides a better indication of preferences and, as the average job tenure in our sample of current employees is 21 years (while retirees have spent, on average, 25 years in their last job), we capture a sizeable part of the working life.
The atomisation of a sizeable chunk of the working class – as they moved from unionised industries into zero hours contracts and low paid insecure service sector jobs – is a problem that disproportionately haunts Labour.
Even in modern service economies, a sizeable fraction of the working population is exposed to high physical job demands [ 11, 12], thus this is likely to infer a considerable public health impact.
I refer you to the musings of Woody Allen, who when asked whether he was comforted by the fact that when the inevitable occurs, he will at least leave behind a sizeable body of work, said "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
