But Leger was mobilized as a sapper in 1914 and discovered as his "new comrades" miners, workers, "artisans who worked in wood or metal".
He explained Le Pen's score in terms of "a suffering electorate of office workers, artisans and blue-collar workers who are really feeling abandoned" as well as farmers struggling to make ends meet.
In 1793 94 the Convention enacted an unprecedented national system of public assistance entitlements, with one program allocating small pensions to poor families with dependent children and another providing pensions to aged and indigent farm workers, artisans, and rural widows the neediest of the needy.
It will restart the local economy, bringing foreign investment attracted by the city's new position alongside a major trading route, and by what is unfortunately Calafat's greatest resource -- thousands of skilled but unemployed workers, artisans, engineers and administrators laid off as the local economy crumbled against the onslaught of the free market.
The working class multi-ethnic population was predominantly composed of day labourers, skilled workers, artisans, small shopkeepers, peddlers and low-income white collar workers.
In each database, these headings were complemented by a long list of generic terms for workers (artisans, company, corporation, employees, employers, enterprise, occupation, 'occupational groups', profession, staff, 'blue collar', 'green collar', 'pink collar', 'white collar', workers, workplace).
In the nearby streets, home to hundreds of poor workers and artisans, floodwaters would reach 20ft.
"Mechanics" was the nineteenth-century word for blue-collar workers or artisans.
It was an aspirational estate of young families with men as technical workers, skilled artisans or young professionals and with mums at home doing competitive housewifery.
"The building's construction budget went almost entirely to local companies – workers, craftsmen, artisans, entrepreneurs – who are as directly affronted by its degradations as I am," Todd said.
Mr. Wang is a documentary photographer whose book of portraits, "Harvey Wang's New York" (Norton), showing older blue-collar New Yorkers in their humble workplaces, gives the dwindling Manhattan population of trade workers and artisans a poignant human face.
