In Washington State, after legislators said they would have to renege on a promise to raise the salary of home health care workers to $8.70 an hour from $7.86, the Senate majority leader, James West, a Republican, complained that the health care workers were "perpetual pathetics" who were always whining.
Never mind that such a worker would be a perpetual migrant, never to know the pleasures of roots, community, and belonging.
The high death rate was the result of the appalling conditions that workers slaved under, including perpetual near starvation, merciless beatings, ruthless hours, and the many tropical illnesses.
On certain blocks of lower Manhattan, this task figures regularly in the lives of local workers, who have become perpetual tourists of the 9/11 memorial.
Irresistibly energetic and vivacious, she struck her co-workers as someone in perpetual movement - whether on foot, bike, car, or horseback - and always talking.
Life in the refinery was so infernal that The New York Tribune declared in 1894 that a worker had only one hope of escaping "perpetual torture".
In her mid-40s, burnt out and seeking sanctuary, Frankie Rowley walks away from life as an aid worker in Africa and returns to the lush, perpetual late summer of the New England world in which her parents are drifting into tranquil senescence.
In a very real sense, the workplace is now characterized by perpetual change that requires equally as constant developmental adjustments by workers.
"As workers, whether or not we are waged, we experience perpetual violence and this violence must be brought to an end.
Farmers, who have political clout and a perpetual hunger for cheap labour, may be allowed to hire more seasonal workers.
