Sentence examples for destitute workers from inspiring English sources

The very presence of this "army" of able-bodied but destitute workers seemed to catch the essential savagery of the new economy and it stunned onlookers.

Employers usually confiscate their passports in exchange for jobs, as if a license to travel does a destitute worker much good.

Newly created sugar plantations across Cambodia have created thousands of cash-paying jobs for destitute migrant workers and subsistence farmers, and hundreds of jobs for skilled factory workers.

But the developing sugar industry has created jobs chopping sugar cane for previously destitute migrant workers from hill villages even poorer than Omliang Commune.

The Grapes of Wrath was denounced by some of its critics as a Red manifesto and ceremonially burned by plantation owners in California who are portrayed as grasping, violent and exploiting the destitute migrant workers.

My Korean mother had been a destitute sex worker and therefore I had grown up with seeing nothing very positive regarding men or being a man.

And she clearly explained to me what she and I were -- and would be -- facing in Korea, she as an unwed, uneducated, starvingly destitute sex worker and me as her pariah mixed race child.

The dour reverend first warned in 1798 that population growth would lead to soaring resource prices, leaving workers destitute.

Will there be a honeypot anywhere close to the $8 billion set aside for Deepwater Horizon to compensate the destitute and exploited workers from these other supply chains?

He began working as a freelance photojournalist in 1936, exploring the life of the poor and destitute, with images of workers, picket lines and trade union meetings, until the outbreak of the second world war.

The foreign fighters assaulted Afghans working for the United Nations, stole Land Cruisers and trucks and took hundreds of tons of wheat flour destined for destitute Afghans, the aid workers said.