The modern service economy, she said, is full of workers who may have "manager" in their title, but largely function as manual laborers and clerks.
Some lots have half-finished structures, seemingly abandoned; others are full of workers rushing around at a frenetic pace.
Reis worked at the site's canteen, which was full of workers having lunch when the disaster struck.
When I left my apartment yesterday morning, it was full of workers who were upgrading various electrical situations in an effort to make them safer.
Though the place was full of workers, they seemed to be the sort of workers who placed blame for the problems on work done by other people.
It was full of workers, all these young women sitting at benches assembling tiny electrical motors, the kind that drive a side-view mirror or a DVD tray.
Yet during what might be a once-in-a-generation summer – as the sun keeps shining, day after day, and the parks are full of impromptu skivers, the pubs are full of workers having cheeky afternoon lagers, and even supposedly earnest protest marches feel more like carnivals – such national dilemmas can feel very distant.
Dubai, and the surrounding Gulf states, is full of construction workers, toiling in conditions of near slavery.
These days the park is full of city workers eating lunch, a few stray folk, and tables at the back of a pub.
In Ningbo, a coastal town in Zhejiang province, Bird's modern factory is full of industrious workers and high-tech machines, but Dai Maoyu, Bird's executive vice-president, looks tired.
