Sentence examples for laborers from inspiring English sources

This practice was a sensible solution for all, since it enabled a country like West Germany to hire foreign workers to do various relatively onerous jobs for considerably less than it would have had to pay its domestic labor force, and the imported laborers also profited, as they were able to earn considerably more than they could have in their own countries.

Cooper critiques labor unions when she describes "foreigners" and "immigrant laborers, who cannot even speak English" threatening to "cut off the nerve and paralyze the progress of an industry that gives work to an American-born citizen" (VAJC, 173 174).

In Malaysia, migrant workers who manufacture electronics products are working as modern-day slave laborers who have had their passports and wages confiscated and are unable to return to their own countries.

In addition to the allegations of corruption that have surrounded Fifa for decades, the organization has been sharply criticized for awarding World Cup hosting rights to Russia and especially Qatar, where construction for the sporting facilities is being completed by laborers under conditions compared to slavery.

Which is why President Bush's proposal to create a guest-worker program that would divert the illegal influx into legal channels and legalize up to eight million undocumented laborers already in the country is such an important development.Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute was right.

Economists say the 1990 experience when the country saw the expulsion of some 1m of its laborers from neighboring Gulf countries was a shock from which the country has still not recovered.

This morning the New York Times had something sniffy to say: "Maybe some European or Asian societies are happy to rely on imported laborers with no right to vote, no representation or hope of equality, but that's not the American way, and must never be .Yet this has in fact been the American way for years, and in the absence of proper reform it will continue to be so.

The basic exclusion law prohibited Chinese labourers defined as "both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining"—from entering the country.

One of her first acts as printer-in-chief was to meet with the unions, which agreed to buyouts of 330 laborers last year.

"It was a huge undertaking, requiring millions of bricks and, obviously, large numbers of laborers".

Opium had been tolerated in the United States for more than a century — until Chinese laborers began to compete with Americans for jobs.