Since that time, the city's workers have shared fully in the nation's labor market miseries, with over 108,000 jobs evaporating citywide between August, 2008 and May, 2009.
A quick search for "Bangladesh" on the New York Times or another publication's website uncovers a litany of chaos and misery: labor unrest, murder, pitched street battles between police and political protesters, flash floods, landslides, death, and destruction.
Some people and their descendants became wealthy because of the misery and unpaid labor of others, under a system that was largely sanctioned by the United States government.
To think that in the United States a man like Nikolai G. Tolstich, who has suffered the miseries of a Russian labor camp for anti-Soviet propaganda, would be treated like a common criminal for having a briefcase on the bench beside him!
Or was it a place of misery for working people who labored in horrific conditions that would never voluntarily be improved by the capitalist class and the politicians who served it?
"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.
The vegetarian landlady resembles "an elderly frog laboring under the combined miseries of a severe stomach-ache and the conviction that he was going insane and had better commit suicide".
He said he saw his role as "the silent friend of those who labor in the barren field, the ivy of eternal misery climbing the leprous wall behind which rebellious humanity hides its virtues and its vice".
'This Is America' Many students — including many who left Hershey before the labor groups arrived — said the jobs were an immersion in misery.
Witnessing my wife's misery as she recovered from 40 hours of labor.
