Sentence examples for with labourers from inspiring English sources

He also pleased conservatives but upset liberals by suppressing the French worker-priests who had been living with labourers in order to extend their ministry.

Disputes ensued over land and political power within and between European and Fijian communities, and problems arose with labourers introduced from other Pacific islands.

In a letter to local authorities in October 2011, the Malen Land Owners Association denounced working conditions at the plantation as "near-slavery", with labourers earning just over $2 a day in temporary jobs.

It could raise the minimum wage, increase wage subsidies, enact a basic income, or use more heavy-handed regulation to protect industries and force firms to share more of their profits with labourers.

As vultures flew overhead, it was a forlorn sight, especially compared with a mural at the PCA's headquarters that shows the original Panama Canal swarming with labourers 100 years ago though some look more like slaves than employees.

He describes, for example, a harvest with labourers stacking sheaves as miners pass by to and from shifts: "The land falls quiet, the day bending again to the crops, until darkness falls, when at the late shift-change time, new columns of men come and go under the red, low-hanging harvest moons".

In both the English and Spanish languages, the word peon became synonymous with labourer but was restricted in the United States to those workers compelled by contract to pay their creditors in labour.

Driving around the capital with other labourers, looking at everything with the quick eyes of a new arrival, Ralph acquired a sense of England and its underlying structures: "We found out about middle-class meanness and snobbery... about the curious combination of kindness, cunning, ignorance, feigned servility and actual contempt which the unskilled worker class had for their masters".

Online, for nine days the weekly will be republishing historical articles starting with an account from 1919 of a British soldier working with Chinese labourers in France.

Clark wrote to the Company on 12 April 1899, once more attaching copies of his concessions, with an offer to supply the BSAC settlements in Southern Rhodesia with contract labourers taken from among his neighbouring chiefs' populations.

The workers understood that this was the prelude to replacing them with nonunion labourers, whom they called "scabs".