For example, when American factories became mechanized, the workers were not permitted to stop the assembly line if anything went amiss; that was the task of supervisory personnel.
A big blue tractor pulled a shaded, mechanized harvester, carrying six workers in hats and bandannas, and six large wooden bins.
After fighting lawsuits for many years, the Fanjuls finally switched to a mechanized cane harvest, eliminating foreign workers and, eventually, the controversy over their working conditions.
As power plants aged and mining mechanized, the average age of workers rose; shrinking employers don't hire the young.
Though much of Volkswagen's assembly line is mechanized, the factory still employs 25,000 workers.
Australia doesn't have a ready source of farm workers, so the vineyards are mechanized, even in the best regions.
Workers who have lost jobs on mechanized cotton plantations find jobs at catfish processing plants.
Any worker facing the new world of mechanized labor understood the John Henry story.
In 1945, the computer pioneer Vannevar Bush imagined what he called a "memex"—a mechanized library and filing cabinet, on which an office worker would store all his relevant information without the need for paper files at all.
