For example, Working on the Wrong Thing by Rikki Ililonga & Musi-O-Tunya is about being a migrant worker far away from one's home village, while I've Been Losing by Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family is about everyday injustices.
For companies like IBM, which has 5,000 job openings in the United States, new-collar workers can help it meet its work force needs — and do it inexpensively if those workers are far away from urban centers, where the cost of living and prevailing wages are higher.
They pick up workers as far away as Concord, 54 miles northeast of the Googleplex, as the company's sprawling Mountain View headquarters are known, and Santa Cruz, 38 miles to the south.
There is that tension though, all of my friends and co-workers are far away, so there is often that longing to travel and be somewhere else.
The workers were working far away from me.
Small cities are created on site because the workers come from far away.
"I'm really worried about the migrant workers who live far away from home," wrote a third user.
During the 1950s and 60s, immigrant mill and foundry workers from as far away as Newcastle and Sheffield came to Bradford to catch an Indian film on their day off.
"Cleaning the oil properly has become secondary to employing people from the right state," said Glenn Welstad, the chief executive of Command Center, a staffing company that recruited and trained workers from as far away as California.
The company's factory in Solihull, near Birmingham, draws workers from as far away as Wales.Fully 22% of people in Wolverhampton have no qualifications against a national figure of 9%.
