For these kids, education means a chance at a life that is not 14 hours a day of backbreaking labor, risking lives to leave families and toil as migrant laborers across the treacherous border; it means hope for a better future.
Loads of backbreaking labor involved, to say the least.
Where once backbreaking labor was the only method to grow grapes, science and technology began to offer shortcuts.
The villages along the river are emptying because mechanized wine making requires less labor; what backbreaking labor remains is done now by Poles, Ukrainians or Romanians.
And there, in his uneasy bed, the Gudgers, as they rose for another day of backbreaking labor, found him — their recording angel, ready to observe and write again.
To this day tourist hotels are built so as to take in views of such fields, ignoring the reality that rice farming is backbreaking labor.
But they also come to rest, sometimes at cafes or on park benches, sometimes sprawled on the ground, exhausted from backbreaking labor or possibly just passed out drunk.
But the mechanization of cotton production, while it has spared subsequent generations from backbreaking labor for low wages, has produced new hardships.
Mr. Gao and Ms. Wang make do at harvest time, spending two weeks in backbreaking labor that once took them less than a week to perform.
Once the Europeans arrived, with their native grains, and put in a few generations' worth of backbreaking labor, the plains became the "breadbasket of the world".
Lee said he endured endless hours of backbreaking labor seven days a week — constantly hungry and impossibly exhausted — constructing apartment buildings in Pyongyang for the elite.
