Sentence examples for labour at work from inspiring English sources
The women in the Sports Direct warehouses who went into labour at work did so because work has become precarious, and zero-hours contracts have been allowed to bloom, because of government attacks on workers' rights both under Labour and, to an increased degree, under the Tories.
"The dreams of flight, of fast private transportation, of instant communication across continents, and of helpful machines, all stress liberation from hard physical labour at work or drudgery at home".
Occupational activity is measured by asking participants how often they stand, walk and do heavy labour while at work in their main job, with response options of none of the time, a little of the time, some of the time, most of the time, and all of the time.
"There is not going to be any severing of the link between Labour and people at work".
"How we labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think," wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, in what reads like a foreshadowing of our present circumstances.
Furthermore, the experience of taking leave changes men's behaviour even after they return to work, altering the division of labour at home and at work for years to come.
"Not once in the last nine months in which I served in the shadow cabinet have I heard a single debate being led by John McDonnell about a minister for Labour or about rights at work.
At least 1,500 people have been killed at work since Labour's 1997 pledge to change the law.
We need a minister prepared to increase flexibility and security at work, widen labour market opportunity and improve the employers we work for.
As the largest professional association for social workers in Taiwan, the TASW will continue advocating for social workers' labour rights and their health at work.
One such forum, held in Warwick in 2004, became famous among Labour activists for the rights at work policy it agreed.
