Sentence examples for miserable working from inspiring English sources

This revolution, which achieved great gains in economic productivity at the expense of an increasingly miserable working class, encouraged Marx to think that the class struggles that dominated history were leading inevitably to a society in which prosperity would be shared by all through common ownership of the means of production.

On China's Valentine's Day (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in the Chinese calendar, which fell on 23 August this year), 30 migrant workers were taken by surprise when they were invited to a business networking dinner by several college students in Shanghai who, during their summer internships, had happened to see the migrants' miserable working life on the city's construction sites.

He told the increasing alienated and chronically miserable working class things no real "politician" would say aloud.

If you think your employees are entitled to you, you will soon realize that they will be unhappy working for you, and then you will find out that you are unhappy working with them, and then both of you will be miserable working together.

"We Americans and our evil multinationals, it seems, champion a brand of heartless free-market piracy, which robs the good people of the developing world of the fruits of their labor, and forces them to toil in hot, miserable working conditions, just to make our garments and sneakers.

Her reports, together with her contributions to Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895), presented a vivid picture of miserable working and living conditions.

It was also miserable work to enliven the washed-out supermarket produce of the First World.

And even America's battered bosses seem to find the restructuring phase miserable work.

I've never drawn inspiration from that miserable work, and I shall never mention it again in writing, either.

But in exchange for all that work we're doing, and all our miserable work conditions, we're not allowed to demand anything in return.

The Victorian sage John Ruskin helped invent the modern cult of the craftsman: he was both an idealist and an aesthete, and he argued that miserable workers produced miserable work, and vice versa.