Sentence examples for workers in the 1950s from inspiring English sources

But many others came as guest workers in the 1950s and 1960s, especially from Turkey.

Toby Johnson says his 40,000-acre (16,200-hectare) ranch in Cheyenne county employed between eight and ten workers in the 1950s.

Today, a mere 12.5% of the workforce belongs to a union, compared with over one-third of workers in the 1950s.

Despite the occasional Islamic-style embellishments — a villa with an arched entryway, a trellised porch — the developments bring to mind the camps built here by Aramco, the American oil conglomerate, for its executives and workers in the 1950s and '60s.

Those who came as "guest workers" in the 1950s and 1960s quickly adopted Swabian habits of thrift and hard work, says Ulm's mayor, Ivo Gönner, but "the kids have problems".

He also demolishes the economic and welfare- state arguments for mass immigration and points out that in most countries there was no desperate need for extra workers in the 1950s - in Britain's case, Ireland still provided a reserve army of labour.

Cigna will cut 2,150 workers in the first quarter of this year.

Of the 1,300 pink slips to school workers in the spring, about 555 went to teachers.

The technology industry used many self-employed workers in the 1980s.

The industry has shed around 30,000 workers in the past two years.Worse news may be to come.

Attempts to decrease the number of government workers in the early 1990s met with failure.