Sentence examples for cannery workers from inspiring English sources
Top-ranked were Pedro Nava and María Rocío Magaña, Mexican-born children of farm and cannery workers.
Another valuable chapter is devoted to Filipino cannery workers in Alaska fighting against unequal pay and inferior working conditions and learning hard political lessons.
It was perhaps the perfect setting for two idealistic young lawyers, who had taken up the cause of cannery workers, to fall in love and get married.
The Cannery Row Visitors Guide, free at neighborhood shops, points out a few unchanged buildings, like three shacks on Bruce Arliss Way (between Cannery Row and Wave Street) that housed cannery workers.
To a roster that includes striptease ("The Full Monty"), hairdressing ("Blow Dry") and gardening ("Greenfingers"), we may now add female sumo wrestling, the semi-clandestine pastime of a group of hefty Yorkshire cannery workers, among them Daisy, our heroine.
For his latest work at the Tokyo Performing Arts Market this spring, Mr. Matsui was asked by a local theater in the western Japanese island of Kyushu to create a play based on Takiji Kobayashi's landmark Japanese Marxist novel "Kanikosen" (The Crab Ship), about exploited crab cannery workers.
The Spanish called him El Fantastico because of his vast energy: he organized workers in a fish cannery into a union, climbed mountains, swam, wrestled and slept just three or four hours a night.
Lela Anderson, 78, has been at the cannery for 54 years, starting back when workers used scissors to cut the herring before machines did that work.
Then, in the presence of several people and the workers at the Orhei Vit cannery, Mircea tinned tomatoes, cucumbers, and other vegetables with iodized and non-iodized salt in an attempt to test the myth that iodized salt left an unpleasant taste in pickled vegetables and altered their prized quality – crunchiness.
The industry reached its peak in the early 1950s, when it employed thousands of workers at more than 50 canneries.
With ready transportation to foreign markets, six big canneries were built, each employing more than 1,000 workers.
