Utopian post-war planners thought councils might house the majority the "doctor, the grocer, the butcher and farm labourer"—on the same street, as Aneurin Bevan, a Labour minister in the 1940s, put it.
In total, 258,000 workers – about 25% of Qatar's migrant labourer population – will be housed, officials said.
As a recent University College London study showed, the average profile of a recent migrant is more likely to be a young graduate from western or eastern Europe working in the financial, tech or creative services than our more traditional image of an unskilled migrant labourer.
Dad, Joe, was a labourer and my mum, Bridie, was a hairdresser.
When his career in football finished Wee Hughie settled on Tyneside, working as a labourer and writing articles for the local press.
Hassan, who has a wife and two boys in Ghana, said he thought he would get $900 a month as a labourer but instead receives the equivalent of about $250.
Norman, who accompanied his father and worked as a labourer and an extra, recalled hot, dusty weeks filming battle scenes in Snow Canyon, a wind-trap.
After an uncertain period in which I, among other things, sold brushes door-to-door, worked as a labourer in a steel mill and suffered periods of unemployment, I had a stroke of good fortune in 1968 when, working as a clerk at a sportswear manufacturers, I was accepted for training as a computer programmer.
Imelda Staunton, 57, was born in London, the daughter of a hairdresser and a labourer.
Pushpa Das, a Kathmandu labourer, was injured when a wall collapsed on him as he ran from his house.
"If I don't work due to the heat, how will my family survive?" said Mahalakshmi, who earns a 200 rupees (£2) a day as a construction labourer in the southern city of Nizamabad, Telangana state.
