The flatlands are covered by livestock, and economic desperation leaves women toiling alongside men as farmhands, livestock breeders and cotton pickers.
Sixty Afghan refugees worked in a dusty warehouse this morning, bent under backbreaking sacks of wheat, toiling like men building a levee against a flood, racing to keep two million fellow Afghans alive.
The video — out-of-focus and apparently shot with a smuggled cellphone camera — shows a black man toiling with a gardening hoe under the Alabama sun.
Everything about his vending is karmic, he said, including being a poor man toiling long hours near the Financial District, and a Muslim working near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
It concentrated on providing corporate advice to the rich and powerful: a business model that relied not on its balance sheet but on the brains and wiles of the men toiling away in its famously ratty offices.And what men they were.
Since the American revolution, women have toiled alongside men in America's armed forces.
Slave laborers had toiled here — men and women who had been worked to death — and the passageways retained a ghostly gloom.
And we watched until down the road we saw crowds of men toiling along towards us.
The vibe is modern ranch meets food court: slate floors, weathered brick, Edison bulbs, men toiling over flame.
The solid, powerful men toiling for the railroads in Benton's "Ten Pound Hammer and Lewiss's "Above the Yards, Weehawken" evoke a long-gone age of industrial might.
There were lights, and many sheepskinned men toiling with shovels, and confusion — and bitterest cold out there, 25° below, I judge conservatively.
