Our showcase of some of the hottest devices hitting the market in the next few months reflects the broad variety of products designed with business users in mind, which promise to help propel workers to new levels of efficiency and mobility.
The first spreading machines in the late 1890s, often built of wood, carried fabrics in either bolt or book-fold form as the workers propelled the spreading machines manually and aligned the superposed plies vertically on the cutting table, thus making the cutting lay.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan cobbled together a coalition of Republicans and disaffected blue-collar workers that propelled him into the White House and changed the face of the G.O.P.
For the many who remember the days of dread and wonder during the courageous struggle of Poles against communism, there was fear that Mr. Wajda would show too many of the warts and not enough of the bravery and sheer stubbornness that propelled Mr. Walesa, a worker with limited formal education, from a Gdansk shipyard to the Nobel Peace Prize and Poland's presidency.
Amid rising unemployment, the first to be dispensed from businesses were the contractual workers, propelling "haken-giri" or "cutting temps" onto the list.
And indeed many of the world's 50m-100m domestic workers are migrants propelled across borders by gulfs in wealth as great as those between aristocratic Victorians and their maids, or colonial Portuguese in Brazil and their slaves.But differences in financial status are not all that drives the maid trade.
He is quick to recognize how the cynical cubicle-worker wisdom that propelled "The Dilbert Principle" onto best-seller lists is at work in his role as restaurant boss.
The movement's roots are in the poor neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, where workers formed unions and propelled Perón to power in 1946.
Thatcher's "property owning democracy"—the eradication of affordable social housing was propelled by the same thinking; disobedient workers could be tamed away from widespread strikes with huge mortgage debts and the fear of losing their homes.
Terrorists armed with AK-47s and rocket propelled grenade launchers attacked a bus carrying workers, and security vehicles escorting the bus, according to the complaint.
