Yet Gissing struggled on through adversities, enduring the discomfort, loneliness and foul food of London's lodging classes, rising at dawn to go off and tutor for a pittance, forgoing his supper to save up for a six-volume set of Gibbon, and then seeing his self-published debut novel, Workers in the Dawn, appear in 1880 to no fanfare at all.
B9 CLEANING HOUSE -- In a novel procedure, environmental workers will pump a germ-killing gas throughout the anthrax-infected Hart Senate Office Building next week.
Famously in John Steinbeck's novel of migrant workers in the Depression, and now in an opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie, its knights and ladies are poor people of little natural distinction, ennobled by the desperation of their lives.
The concept of PR is almost completely novel for health workers in China.
Beginning in the nineteenth century, lectors were men hired to read newspapers and novels aloud as workers rolled tobacco by hand.
His first novel, "The Case Worker," based loosely on his job as a child welfare supervisor, had gained him some renown in Hungary, but his subsequent books — the novels "The City Builder," "The Loser" and "A Feast in the Garden" (his most autobiographical book) and the nonfiction essay "Antipolitics" — could be published only in secret or abroad.
Shawnie, a 2006 novel by social worker Ed Trewavas, written from the point of view of a 13-year old girl living in Knowle West, documents some of the deprivation he encountered in his work.
He intended a piece of social realism – a novel about Chinese manual workers, along the lines of Zola's Germinal.
Similar discussions of the classic 75-year-old novel, about two migrant workers desperately seeking their own land, unfold in thousands of classrooms around the country.
Using a novel method of demolition, workers plan to soak the interior of the building with water to keep asbestos fibers from spreading.
To head off a global pandemic of avian flu, some scientists are advancing a novel strategy: that poultry workers and farmers in Asia get the same vaccine that Americans and Europeans are given to protect against conventional flu.
