In thousands of homes, tens of thousands of people are scooping rice and vegetables from tin bowls, packing the leftovers to eat during the long day ahead and then, hands rinsed, goodbyes said, filing out into the streets, the streams of workers uniting and then separating as they flow through the town, like blood through veins, each leading to a different factory.
FROM the top of a bright orange, 42-foot-tall observation tower, it wasn't much of a stretch to look down at the thousands of amateur runners, all wearing the same white T-shirt as they jogged a four-kilometer route through Hamburg, and imagine them as streams of worker ants, rushing through an enormous, half completed designer colony.
Britain reckons on filling the gap through an endless stream of workers from new EU states.
All that construction required labor, too, so a stream of workers arrived from Spain, Portugal, France and elsewhere.
New York City needs a steady stream of workers coming into Manhattan daily to keep offices filled (and property prices high).
Following a stream of workers to a canteen above the bus station and discovering the joyous taste explosion of cashew nut and pineapple curries.
A booming export-oriented industrial belt stretching from northern Italy to the Netherlands, with Germany at the centre, attracts a steady stream of workers from all over Europe.
"Companies looking to hire should be able to count on these schools to provide them with a steady stream of workers qualified to fill those specific jobs".
Another large stream of workers from Texas sets out in the spring for the north-central, mountain, and Pacific states, harvesting fruits, vegetables, sugar beets, and cotton.
At any rate, the special seemed to be the favorite choice of the steady stream of workers who came in during the lunch hour.
For the coal, lumber, turpentine, brick, steel and other interests described here, a steady stream of workers amounted to a cheap source of fuel.
