Sentence examples for generations of labor from inspiring English sources

It's Labor Day weekend, which means beach-ing, BBQing, and contemplating the rights earned by generations of labor activists who fought for the livable working conditions we know and love today.

— that animated previous generations of labor historians.

In an email, one long-time SEIU staffer summed up the ambivalent feelings toward the campaign, enthused by a new generation of labor organizers, while fretting about the union's checkered record.

"At the end of the day, the next generation of workers will judge our generation of labor leaders on whether we invented the next model," Rolf said, "and not whether we coasted to get our pensions, and let it all be someone else's problem".

There are a number of lessons we need to glean from the first generation of labor marketplaces in order for a labor protocol to be effective.

A generation of labor economists is now familiar with the basic picture presented in Smith and Welch's seminal 1989 paper, "Black Economic Progress After Myrdal".

As early as the 1790s, one French anti-slavery activist argued that the enslaved could easily ask not just for freedom but for repayment for generations of unpaid labor.

Generations of boxers labored as night watchmen or warehouse hands or bookmakers' enforcers.

Generations of scribes labored in the abbey's library to copy texts and preserve artifacts that dated to antiquity.

The method is just an approximation to the description of what happened, assuming that the market conditions were given and that any observed change in the generation of value, labor content, as well as other inputs could be explained by the changes in the demand and/or in the supply.

The second involves the generation and validation of labor requirements for a category of workers known as mail handlers.