Laurent's grandfather was a miner, his father a metalworker.
It wasn't Bill Gates, it wasn't Soros, it wasn't any big businessman, it was a metalworker.
It was all a very long way from Salford, near Manchester, where he had been born as plain Alfred Cooke, the son of a metalworker.
The election in 2002 of Lula, a former metalworker who leads the left-of-centre Workers Partyy, was itself a sign of that transition; so was his subsequent decision to maintain macroeconomic discipline.Sadly, Brazil could be doing so much better.
The Bolshevik leader looks uncannily like Transdniestria's own bearded "president", Igor Smirnov, a former metalworker from Kamchatka in the Russian Pacific who moved to Tiraspol in 1987 as a factory manager and manoeuvred his way into power.
In Brazil, for example, Lula da Silva, a former metalworker and shop steward, became president in January.
To that end, he scandalized Confucians of his day, who believed that the elite should not engage in manual labour, by becoming an accomplished metalworker and busying himself with alchemical studies.
The metalworker, especially the craftsman using a file to shape and clean small forgings and castings (harness gear, buckles, and so on), used a simple rest, essentially a notched post driven into the ground in front of his bench, to support his workpiece.
The metalworker was more artisan, or even artist, than industrial worker, and in the trade there were patternmakers, smelters, turners, metal chasers, gilders, and specialized goldsmiths and silversmiths.
1732 Bar-sur-Aube, France 1813 or 1814 Paris, France Pierre Gouthière, (born 1732, Bar-sur-Aube, Fr. died 1813/14, Paris) metalworker who was among the most influential French craftsmen in the 18th century.
The early metalworker was familiar, for example, with hammering, embossing, chasing, inlaying, gilding, wiredrawing, and the application of niello, enamel, and gems.
