Sentence examples for peasant workers from inspiring English sources

Mr. Liu's story resembles that of many peasant workers.

Many of the journeys involve mingong, or peasant workers, as the nearly 300m migrants from the countryside who work in urban areas are often snootily called.

It recalls those edifying facilities proposed by the Russian Constructivist avant-garde where peasant workers could eat and read Marx at the same time.

Like many other similar factories, Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacture, is staffed mostly by nongmin gong (peasant workers) because they are cheap.

They continue to be called mingong (peasant workers) no matter how long they have been living in the city, and so do their children, even if urban-born and raised.

So-called peasant workers, who tended to live on the fringes of industrial regions, contrived to benefit from both movements: while one part of the family maintained the farm, other family members earned wages in local factories.

She emerged in Domrémy, in what is now Lorraine, in January 1429 – a peasant worker convinced she had divine orders to free France.

Part of the power of Alyosha, which describes a cheery peasant worker who remains sanguine whatever befalls him, derives from the extraordinary death scene with which it ends: "He spoke little.

"I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work," he said.

Instead, he and Stolypin altered the electoral law in favour of landowners, wealthier townsfolk, and Russians to the detriment of peasants, workers, and non-Russians.

In addition, the congress was expected to invite businesspeople to join the Communist Party, modernizing it to include "peasants, workers and businessmen".