It’s a simple Rose knot, something any worker would use. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

While the machinery was being moved by train, Emalia closed and we, along with all the other Jewish workers, were sent back to Płaszów to await our turn to join Schindler. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Didi was about my age and spent most of the week working as a domestic worker in a white suburb of Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Domestic workers, laborers, small- business owners, and many of the doctor-lawyer-preacher-teacher class moved in alongside the drillers, riggers, and civil servants. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The core class included farm workers, families of soldiers killed during the Korean War, families of troops who had served with Kim II Sung fighting against Japanese occupation, and government workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When a worker at last called her name, Ann walked over to a large desk where a white woman hunched over a stack of papers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Better start pretending you’re a hard worker. It’s just over that rise. And hurry up. We don’t get out there before every other black fool, we’ll be out of luck.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even more important, I did not want to be away during the forthcoming International Poliomyelitis Conference, which was to bring several phage workers to Copenhagen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He began dressing like he was a blue-collar worker—jackets from UPS and Home Depot, a back brace like he had a job in a warehouse. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, she says, "My, what a hard worker you are. Your boss must be pleased." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the men, however, were required to be “complying, nonunion workers of German citizenship and Aryan race.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The laughing workers didn’t notice—they tossed a few more taunts at him and walked on—but Doon knew instantly what he’d done. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was just one way for the owners to silence their workers: by making the price of flight or rebellion too high. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A big, rough-looking white man with bright red hair stood up and put his hand on the Preacher’s chest and said, “Show’s over, boy. We’s pulling up stakes tonight and don’t need no more workers.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

This raised a few eyebrows, but none in the Fishery where I’d proven myself to be a hard worker and a dedicated student. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Surely the grocery store workers had seen my sisters and me skipping through the aisles with our basket. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning ritual went on, each worker accepting his portion from Ranofer and carrying it to the courtyard to begin his task, while the scribe kept strict account of every grain. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Because you got a chance—a real chance—of being something other than a sharecropper. Your brothers and sister are strong. Good workers. But they don’t got what you got.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When her body falls to the ground I turn to harvest a large man crawling toward me, his mouth opening and closing without making a sound, his clothing that of a field worker. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But word of the work spread, and five hundred union men stormed the park and drove the workers off. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"You know," I said, "I once did some volunteer work in a hospital. Do you need any workers?" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I'd go back to the hotel with clean laundry and play cards with the other electrical workers who lived down the hall. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any people you can call?” the social worker asks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped reading and writing letters for migrant workers, but still helped them in other ways. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even forgot about the ice cream, which Mrs. Moss had only offered in front of the worker to make it seem like she was a good foster parent. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In any case, with his reputation as a no-nonsense leader as well as the grueling work, Rondon had to pay his men six to seven times more than the going rate for hired workers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

This time the black workers refused to defer to the black aristocracy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I decided that someday when I was rich, I was going to buy the factory and let the workers use the bathroom whenever they wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But now the workers, male and female, were most often Asian. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In addition, a news report showed that over the past six years the number of employed workers in Odessa had dropped by 22,400, from 65,200 to 42,800. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In New York City, the aid worker led the boys to different gates. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ideal of brotherhood announced by the revolutionaries of Paris finally included the sugar workers of Saint Domingue. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The UN workers tried to be fair in dividing up food and clothes among so many of us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bosses hauled in a trainload of strikebreakers to replace the workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Employers will look at that $30,000 figure, which is over twice what they currently pay entry-level workers, and see nothing but bankruptcy ahead. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deputies moved on to attack another worker, not noticing Stanley. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Gethenians do not share their earth as Terrans do with those older societies, those innumerable cities of little sexless workers possessing no instinct but that of obedience to the group, the whole. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A worker directs us onto one of the ramps, and we pull up and squeeze in close to the car in front of us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our social worker, a warm-hearted African-American woman, was next to Grandpa. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were not considered independent workers at all but merely helpmates to their husbands and fathers. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The lives of sugar workers were ruled by the cane, and by the relentless pace of work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mexican rail workers have encountered seven-year-olds on their way to find their mothers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Scores of workers had been hurt or killed in building the dream, their families consigned to poverty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They kidnapped three foreign aid workers and murdered them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was a superhuman feat that came at a price—the immense suffering of the workers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The facts of the case are hardly even remarkable when viewed in the context of the persistent violence perpetrated against American workers for much of our early history. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

White packinghouse workers in Chicago felt a bond with the Argo immigrants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For months, Mom had been telling me about rumors that Finkle workers would be laid off. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Is there anyone who might ask questions? Some social worker who took an interest in him?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Has she called the Green Police and promised to deliver them a black market worker? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

C.P. joined every Klan committee he could, and quickly earned a reputation as a tireless worker. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the month of June, the union wooed workers, setting up a band on a flatbed outside the Great Gate of the Union Stock Yard, greeting workers with lively tunes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Relief workers bring cameras and take pictures of the children, holding little name signs, now that they have gained enough weight to be recognizable. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

An independent group of workers put the issue even more simply: “We feel we are the leaders instead of you.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was a hard worker and did his best to provide for us. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he read was that I was an honest man, a steadily employed, tireless worker, loyal to the firm that employed him, well liked, and sympathetic to the misfortunes of others. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers’ housing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many research workers canceled their accounts in expectation of being called up in the draft. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Reagan’s amnesty deal, the workers started bringing their families up from México. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He’d lived mostly in Montana until his mother decided to go to college to become a social worker and sent him to live with his father and stepmother for high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As explained by historian Edmund Morgan, in colonies like Virginia, the planter elite, with huge land grants, occupied a vastly superior position to workers of all colors. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps Gaia’s forces had arranged some pretext to keep the tourists and construction workers away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to learn more about the two children who were, supposedly, miracle workers, so I sat at a table near the front of the hall with them and the other knights. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A bearded textile worker in a tumbledown Dodge leaves her at Felicia’s door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie, pleased at being taken into the confidence of these older, more experienced workers, obligingly slowed down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day two thousand men, many armed with sharpened sticks, advanced on McArthur’s workers, seized two, and began beating them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We had, for instance, some civil servants, some nurses, clerical workers, salesmen from the department stores. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hammers rang faintly in the distance—workers banging away at the ship, all unaware of his emergency. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In our neighbourhood there was a large compound that housed migrant workers from the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giggling in chorus, the workers waved some fence posts, broomsticks, bicycle chains, and bricks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the nation’s steel companies were enormously profitable, their workers were paid wages so low they could barely afford to feed, clothe, and house themselves and their families. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

An immense amount of work on the subject of chromosome abnormalities is being done by workers in many countries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Five of the six workers who had been eating lunch in one of the sheds in the North End Paving Yard would be found dead. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the course of complaining about his hard lot in life, he avowed that he could double his business overnight if only he could find enough reliable workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sugar mill workers sat in the front row in chairs or on old buckets. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In a strike, workers walked off the job and refused to go back until the company agreed to their demands. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It was a strange requirement of the workers’ jobs, this constant show of deference, but the Helpers met it admirably. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mary McDowell, a leading settlement house social worker, observed that the defeated strikers seemed “unmanly and without self-respect.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Like if you took a social worker into my house and he talked to my parents, it would he like talking to that wall over there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted a water wagon parked ahead, track workers perched up on top of it, and ran toward it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers’ hands would be stained yellow; so would the ankles of the khan’s white horse. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For most workers, the only time in the last three decades when the rise in hourly pay beat inflation was during the speculative bubble of the 1990s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

From the field behind the sugar mill a group of workers were watching the balloon floating in the air. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At first, black workers were supportive of the students and stayed away from jobs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed leather workers and pillow shops and booths where brass vases and pots were for sale. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sit in the cafeteria picking at the burritos some Indiana kitchen worker has attempted to make, and she asks what I did over the weekend. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the workers up on ladders in the orange trees were Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On the way home, Ndlamini couldn’t stop calling me a “miracle worker.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the groups is made up of unemployed toy and light-metal workers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers had finished loading the big truck. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the cities, the majority of workers stayed home and black businesses did not open. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continues: A regular journal carries from one research worker to another the various . . . observations which are of common interest . The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand construction workers also left the fair’s employ and returned to a world without jobs, already crowded with unemployed men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Bear in mind we are not office workers, sitting around idling at the basal metabolic rate. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The social worker is at my bedside now. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the mall opens and the workers come.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Poll workers had the discretion to charge a poll tax or administer a literacy test, or not, and they exercised their discretion in a racially discriminatory manner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He did this for me, asking an American woman who was a social worker at Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were good boys, hard workers, and never caused anybody a bit of trouble. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many a time I had wished that my parents were workers in a textile mill and that we were poor. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man complained that his boss passed him over when giving out overtime hours, favoring Polish workers who had less seniority. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was a Democrat in name, in the party of Mayor De Roos, but he drew little from that machinery, the strong-arm cadres of unionized workers and tradespeople, white ethnic old New York. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were hard workers, kept to themselves mostly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It carried on its life inside the monkey workers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to one of his fellow workers who had been able to get up on the roof of Number 3 freight house to escape the flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly...on the evening of the fourth day, one of my women workers yelled, ‘I’ve got it! A Golden Ticket!’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Durban, Indian workers walked out of factories while in the Cape thousands of Coloured workers stayed home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you gave them up, then you are no longer Lorraine’s legal father,” the worker responded. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I became physically sick to my stomach when I heard about three more Civil Rights workers killed in Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was certain that it was the result of theft from both her workers and her clients, so it was essential to stay on top of the situation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“My platform is called FemPower Me. It is about microloans for women in developing countries. What you may not know is that many big corporations exploit female workers.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Then, a week later, someone from the school again contacted the hotline, but the worker assured the caller that you were okay and the child protection team didn’t follow it up!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The server who hadn’t acknowledged me had a round, shaved head and, like many food workers, had grown a bit pudgy from the practically unlimited opportunity he had to filch food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The post office workers returned these envelopes or passed them on to the Dead Letter Office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on a hospital plane full of UN workers and sick white people, we were transported through a long thrumming darkness, in which we slept the sleep of the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubes are still rubes, and you can still tell the performers from the workers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And even when there weren’t famous guests to meet, Elizebeth and the other workers were served fine meals, and they dressed up for dinner. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So the Oak Ridge workers knew very little about uranium—and almost nothing about how to handle the stuff safely. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canvas walls of the front of the pavilion were rolled up, and inside dozens of workers were laying down carpets over the grassy field. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they left the rice fields, Polly could hear the workers being called back to work—no free time just because of a little snakebite. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know a worker bee could lay eggs,” I said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plants were always looking for new workers, so Generose had no problem finding a plant with an opening. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even if the work was perfect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Wilson, a Consolidated Edison office worker, was feeling a little bloated. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the ambulance workers must pry a flattened hand or leg off the rails to move the migrant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But graduation meant that, at age sixteen, he had become an adult worker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn't difficult; it was enough never to sign up as a skilled worker. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet these privileged protesters did not allow their actions in support of maintenance workers to be blurred by the other contentious issues of the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But my father is a watchmaker. He’s not a government worker. Why would they arrest him?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had a skillful worker in wood make a huge wooden horse which was hollow and so big that it could hold a number of men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hire the workers—nine in all, now—and order much of the merchandise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Me and Viola watch as the workers start returning to their trees and their baskets and their whatevers, some eyes still on us but most people getting back to work. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Olmsted was awed by the sheer numbers of workers involved. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Like the workers loading the crates into the truck, those in the boats seemed earnestly intent upon their work. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

While he was wiping his stamp pad, he wondered how many of the other workers would appear. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early-morning station at 125th Street had the first of the army of black workers headed downtown to sort mail, to carry bags, to push racks through the busy New York streets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know whether to desert the seared Mr. Palermo and see what had happened or to stay in the factory, where the workers had begun dancing with one another under the loudspeakers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One government worker in the Mexican state of Tabasco, who in 1999 denounced corruption by certain judicial police agents, was dead a few days later in a mysterious car accident. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I am not sure, however, that I could have maintained the seven-day-a-week regimen month after month or eluded the kinds of injuries that afflicted my fellow workers in the housecleaning business. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a hard worker, modest, and a leader of the local Komsomol, a youth communist group. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The workers peered through curtains at the van, and when the reporter came to the door and pushed the buzzer, no one answered. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He replaced a worker named Robert Latimer, who had quit to take over as gatekeeper at the rail intersection in front of Holmes’s drugstore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We file past the cafeteria workers to collect our plates of rice and some unrecognizable vegetable stew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Household workers, all, or former employees, she decided. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all laughed at the sight of the two workers who had been operating the drill. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gran scans the beds for me, but just as the social worker starts to point out where I am, Gramps sees me and he strides across the floor to my bed. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experienced black Urban League staff worked side by side with white women workers from the Travelers Aid Society to get migrants’ first steps on the right path. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Two weeks ago. There was a worker whose body was found at a kosher slaughterhouse down in the Yards. Lev and Gavril took care of tahara on their own.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Back at the monkey house, the situation had become unbearable for the remaining workers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first workers arrived, Jon and Leon left the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But fortunately, the commercial tells us, we workers can exert the same kind of authority over our painkillers that our bosses exert over us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it had grown increasingly insane, with nasty confrontations between picketers and replacement workers, people arrested, beaten, lying in the street in front of delivery trucks. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the social worker walks into the waiting room, everyone stands up, like they’re greeting royalty. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the planters instead preferred to pay by the “task”—they insisted that they wouldn’t pay a worker until he had completed a specific job. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The one with the thermos is Max, and the other must be Siunek, and I’m not sure what kind of workers they’re supposed to be. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Out of love for Miguel, and not for any ideological conviction, Alba sat in at the university along with the students who had seized a building in support of a strike by workers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until this point Burnham had shown a level of compassion for his workers that was extraordinary for the time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As Lori, the court-ordered social worker she meets with biweekly always tells her to do, Molly decides to make a mental list of all the positive things about her situation. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He recruited others to replace them and treated these workers the same way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was already sympathetic to the plight of his Jewish workers; but from that time on, he increased his efforts to save as many Jews as he could. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The workers, warming themselves by the fire, were too far away to see me. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Taking jobs as a day worker helped with the clothes, and even a few things for the apartment, but it did not help with Cholly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You seem like a hard worker. At my old school, I was the one who always ended up doing all the work.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set down outside of Marshall because they was taking on workers at the new lumber mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Schindler's factory, my father picked up rumors about the war from the gentile workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Already they had assigned a different worker to remain at the Hatchery. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The dismal name came from the bleak opportunities workers faced in the region, where iron, coal, and steel companies had busted unions for two decades. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Many workers have noticed the tendency of resistant flies to rest more on untreated horizontal surfaces than on treated walls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were the postal workers and the struggling bookkeepers and the men lying on their couches at home without any job at all. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You’ve got auto plants right here in Ohio that have been around for decades closing their doors and laying off workers who’ve never known another job in their entire life. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

This was also the year in which more labor unrest took place than ever before, as workers sought to improve their lives along with a changing world. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I asked my friend the Lost Boy coordinator where I could find this social worker so I could talk to her about the Lost Girls. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we walked back into the Atlas Clearing and headed for a tent where most of the carnival workers were sitting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A fellow worker nudged me as a young, pretty girl passed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some did end up as quarry and mine workers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He seems interested in the new walkway the workers have laid and also in the dismantling and rebuilding of our chimney. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But it was with this realization that I took my first step that summer toward realizing something even more important about the ‘worker.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned later that the social worker had called our grandfather to tell him we’d been taken into foster care. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She supposed that she and the younger workers, including Heather, would become friends, of a sort. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But it would mean a series of interviews with UN workers in Burundi, the home of the massacre, and my mom didn’t want to go. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was possible—considering the shouting, sloganeering crowd of Party workers that Comrade K. N. M. Pillai had managed to assemble outside the gate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the workers were so bad off financially they were forced to send their children to work rather than allow them to attend school. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I can tell being away for a whole week from a job that don’t mind firing colored workers is on his mind. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Langley liked to think of itself as a place that eschewed bureaucracy, where an idea from a cafeteria worker could get a fair hearing if it were compelling enough. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The checkpoint boss typically gets half the take; his workers split the rest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to call first thing because Willow was going to be assigned a social worker and officially have her case file opened. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

From the hole in the ground came a rumbling, gurgling sound, and the workers began to run, their screams smothered by what had become a roar. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“There’s a storeroom worker named Looper. He’s a carrier. Do you know him? He was two classes ahead of us. Looper Windly.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Uncle came for the bed, I heard him say to my father that Mr. Lyndon was not going to give the factory workers a raise that year. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She made appointments with doctors and social workers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were heading to the local jail to protest the arrest earlier that day of a civil rights worker. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You drive it, Gary,” he said to the worker beside him in the cab. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To help make ends meet, Granny rented out part of her lodgings to immigrant workers whose permits to live in Alexandra had expired and who were facing deportation orders. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying sleepless on the floor one night, he watched as a roommate, a transport worker named Kang Chul Min, who was in his late twenties, got up and began mending his work trousers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We followed the other workers into a nearby building. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Fearing job losses, the workers, including lots of Stokumites, had fought against it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

By now, the roads were filled with children swinging their fathers’ meal buckets and workers returning from saloons for the night shift. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He backed up against the next vertical iron web to keep out of sight of the workers and glanced at the river far below. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The clinic’s seventy community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers and had until recently been peasant farmers themselves, spoke often about the economic obstacles to treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The peak of the strawberry season was over and the last few days the workers, most of them braceros, were not picking as many boxes as they had during the months of June and July. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just beneath the crust lay a twenty-foot stratum of the same quicksand Chicago builders always confronted, only now it was ice cold and a torment to workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Did workers, too, ever instigate violence in pursuit of their cause? Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, after the factory shift was over, Comrade K. N. M. Pillai waylaid the workers of Paradise Pickles and shepherded them into his printing press. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Louis Swift and his fellow industrialists could not rest easy; a new standoff was always just around the corner, requiring new strategies to keep the bosses one step ahead of their workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Marie-France confirmed to Mom and me what Dad had already warned us to be true: Many of the sanctuary workers were dead. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, I spotted all three Baker sisters sitting at a round table with several other girls, working on lanyards under the direction of a community center worker. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Just then, he noticed a blur of motion on his left, and he turned and saw two Hazleton workers walking toward him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to set aside her troubling thoughts and pay attention to the worker s voice and explanations. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I referred several of the most unnerving cases to the teachers, social workers, and other older geeks who’d volunteered to help. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All the workers have stopped. We do not ask for charity, but for that which is our due.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He removed his shirt, shorts, and underwear, and they were taken away by prison workers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My solemn vow: should Capricorn Anderson put the kibosh on my chances with Josh Weintraub, not even Mother’s social worker training could save him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Mom also tries to catch workers stealing so she can say, “See! Thats their loyalty to the revolution!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Hatchery workers returned at the end of the second day, they were murmuring about it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A millionaire named Lewis Hicks ran fourteen mines where bosses treated workers like slaves. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“I talked to one of the aid workers for a few minutes at the clinic,” my mom says as she tucks a few stray hairs into her otherwise neat bun. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks, UN workers would deliver the rations of rice, beans, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and a flour mixture called sosoma, made of soybeans, sorghum, and corn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This room, set up to accommodate about twenty workers, was nearly full. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

On Rack 10 rows of next generation’s chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November, when it came time to buy seed and fertilizer to plant new maize and tobacco, plus hire a new crew of workers, little of the money was left. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The goods— belonging to migrant workers living alone in the city—were being sent to wives back in the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They toiled with the steady devotion of worker bees. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did their schoolwork together in the evenings, and shared meals, their food prepared by a staff of two workers in the kitchen. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow Father dared to approach Schindler with one last request—that his much loved daughter, whom he had not seen in two years, be put on the list of workers going to Brünnlitz. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

These cotton mills were big and flourishing and most of the workers in the town were poor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That was when I realized that one of the back tables, or at least one end of it, was not just for workers but for the B-block untouchables. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I had a distressing thought: It was possible that the girl believed I was some kind of maintenance worker. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Tropical workers start being inoculated at Metre 150,” Mr. Foster explained to the students. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the workers don’t check in their output, then I can’t count it! And if it doesn’t get counted, how are we going to know how many we have?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But the vehicles barely had time to get cold, because the workers were there now from sunup to sundown. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was grueling work up there, and wages were pitiful, but when the call came through camp for workers to alleviate the wartime labor shortage, it sounded better than their life at Manzanar. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm a worker at the Hatchery,” she explained. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We opened at six a.m. to fuel the office workers with fresh pita and Turkish coffee thick enough to stand a spoon in. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Rachel thought there was a hierarchy that should be followed: field workers, house slaves, mistress, and master. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

To keep the policeman’s attention on me, and not the workers who aren’t workers just a few steps behind. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The plant was in Long Island, and I crossed a bridge in the fog to get there and came down in a stream of workers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other white office workers paused in their tasks and listened. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next year, social workers made regular home and school visits to make sure we were bonding properly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The lesson wasn’t lost on the civil rights workers two decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the physical I was herded into a large room along with thirty or so black men, mostly migrant workers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those fickle tricks of memory were even more critical when the killing of the workers was brought up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We were the front desk security team. We greeted visitors, signed for packages, important mail, and, most of all, welcomed the workers. Thousands of them. Each day, they’d swipe their badges and we’d say ‘Hello.’ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I have begun my life as a factory worker. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t look like the M-O-M is going to show,” the worker said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He tried to learn what he could about the rumors by talking to the aid workers in the camp. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers who have some friends among the bosses, they get pieces of cardboard to sleep on. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she’d gotten food poisoning—a box of leftovers that had sat too long in the fridge—and thrown up right in the library, in front of the social worker. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just after he found this one, while he was sitting on the floor watching in fascination as the creature crept up his arm, a couple of workers came by and saw him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know how to find the social workers who might have helped her; she did not even know they existed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The workers bent and slashed, bent and slashed in a hypnotic rhythm. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station—seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

McCandless stayed with Westerberg for three days, riding out with his crew each morning as the workers piloted their lumbering machines across the ocean of ripe blond grain. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just other workers, mostly women with fachalinas folded on their heads to keep off the sun, some with babies strapped to their backs, all bent over, faces close to the earth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to one report from 1689, each pair of workers was expected to cut and bind 4,200 stalks a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She knew she was no beauty, never had been, but she was a fierce worker. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would burn more than six million tons of coal each year to make up to eight million tons of steel and employ more than 30,000 workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn't so common in Marshall, but I had picked it up from mill workers and farm workers that were Mexican. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my mother telling me about having to haul buckets of water to the workers in the fields. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even as workers loaded the platform, it sank eight inches. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Down at the market I see the truck from Dominicanie, and the recruiter looking for workers. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the miners went on strike, coal operators hired gunmen, including sheriff’s deputies, to assault, arrest, and blacklist workers and evict their families from their homes. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

They will take me to the Children’s Aid Society, a place staffed by friendly social workers who keep the children in their care warm and dry and fed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The fellows at the stable liked her and said that she was a better worker than Flittman. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martinelli and other former factory workers say that, over time, they have come to fear that the fall out of the middle class could be permanent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Day by day now, the hordes of workers poured in. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The social worker wanted to know how old their mother was. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a rescue worker, plucking faces from the debris, brushing away glass and wood rot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Winnie was subsequently dismissed from her second job as a social worker because of the incident, and lost her main source of income. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police killings triggered a four-day general strike, and sailors and workers throughout the city joined the shutdown. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The forms sat on my desk for a week before Robin walked with me to the post office and watched me hand them to the postal worker. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Would Karl Marx have urged workers of all species to unite? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm was so large that a leased, battered school bus carried workers to its dusty gate at the height of picking season. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If a worker fell ill, the mill boss would often pay the doctor’s bill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Following the robbers’ command, the workers and customers pressed their faces to the ground. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Before the summer was over, however, she shared her doubts with another Riverbank worker, a young scientist named William Frederick Friedman. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just like the whites in Natal, we want the cheap labor but are reluctant to offer those same workers and their children a home in our country. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Apprentices, assistants, the lowliest workers in every trade—no matter what their status, it was the master’s duty to provide a meal for them in the middle of the workday. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As to which came first, the malignancy or the disturbance of the chromosomes, these workers say without hesitation that “the chromosomal irregularities precede the malignancy.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The refugee workers tell us it can take a long time to find a sponsor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she would still look like what she was, a farm worker, at least she would have a fairly clean face when she tried to talk to Lucky about Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

On a plantation there were large groups of workers—between fifty and several hundred. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A worker transported me to Dr. Howard Black for some tests. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Passing under the protection of the Yard ’s Great Gate allowed workers a small smile of relief and permission to apply their minds and bodies to the tasks at hand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s just sensible. A steady worker with quiet ways. I hope it works out all right.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

King, who was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers, told Hawkins that he just couldn't leave at that time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

During my five weeks in the United States, I spent a lot of time on planes and waiting around in airports, where the image of Americans as hard workers was clearly up for grabs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could be a boat worker,” they could hear one boy say to the other as they set their bikes upright. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was kind to its workers, and its people were all equal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Who better to teach the southern blacks how to be good workers than men of their own race? A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After negotiations for better pay and working conditions broke down, the Marx & Haas Clothing Company locked out one thousand workers, including United Garment Workers of America Ladies’ Local 67, of which Fannie Sellins was president. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Now I’m one step away from being a bum—a circus worker who has disgraced himself not once, but twice, in as many days. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He found little difference in pregnancy rates or school drop-out rates in neighborhoods of between 40 and 5 percent of high- status workers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

About 90 percent of the tablets in the earliest known Sumerian archives, from the city of Uruk, are clerical records of goods paid in, workers given rations, and agricultural products distributed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d then shop at his leisure, much to the discontent of the shop workers who wanted to quit for the day. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So much for what Marx termed the “reproduction of labor power,” meaning the things a worker has to do just so she’ll be ready to labor again. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In nearly every one are tales of academic success against tremendous odds: a battered wife or a combat veteran or a laid-off worker on the way to a better life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Three were scientists checking the efficacy of sprays; 8 worked in greenhouses; 5 were farm workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

To protest this unfairness, Fannie and many union workers walked out of the factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I ran, dodging through travelers with luggage, and airport workers of all kinds. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sugar workers spoke in another way, too. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The company workers were crowded together in miserable barracks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He still secretly supported labor unions and workers' rights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Also, I saw only one pair of trousers actually completed during the time that I spent there, although the factory workers were shambling about clutching all sorts of scraps of cloth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several other mine workers stood around, waiting for their weekly pay. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in there, the nurse called for a social worker. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a red, green, and yellow parrot that had been smuggled from Mexico by Don Pancho, an undocumented farm worker who was my father’s friend. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the resistance of employers only raises a second and ultimately more intractable question: Why isn’t this resistance met by more effective counterpressure from the workers themselves? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The factory workers weren’t allowed to take unscheduled breaks, so they all wore pads in case they needed to use the bathroom. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So he hired his first home care worker—a theology student named Tony—who helped him in and out of the pool, and in and out of his bathing suit. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aid worker said that his new family would be waiting for him there. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m Abilene. I’m twelve years old and a hard worker,” I said, like I had a hundred other times in as many towns. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But it looked as though no Philippine monkey workers had become sick either. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked about old girls we’d known and the racist store worker and if because of him the cops would be out looking for us tomorrow. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, it became obvious that what would become known as the Great Steel Strike of 1919 was much more than simply a labor dispute between workers and owners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Since many workers cross this way to get to the mines, the snow’s pockmarked with footprints. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken her place here, been issued a nametag, and been introduced to the other workers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Just as we come around his house, I spot Mama and Papi in our open doorway as two EMT workers bring a stretcher down the front stoop. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Our blades are not blunt,” said one of the workers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The more I remember that summer, the more I realize that there was no single type of worker. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the collar of the average Western worker made its journey from blue to white over the course of the last century, the value of the persuasive arts for career advancement has grown in proportion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Inside the camps, however, workers had been paid less than twenty dollars a month, even if they were doctors! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The farmer said he had once employed two North Korean defectors and that they had been useful workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But evidence does exist of a distinct pattern of intimidation and harassment of workers by company-hired gunmen, local law enforcement, and National Guard troops—with little or no redress for the victims. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He’d use the candy as a snack before the noon sun called the workers to rest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mere fact that the sugar masters treated their workers as some form of property did not mean the Indians had to accept that definition. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Funds dribbled in, but social workers no longer came to check on the children; health workers and building inspectors no longer came to inspect the building. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He moved there because many Indians were already in Natal, laboring as indentured sugar workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Didn't bring you up to be no street worker," said Wilson. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We squeezed into a space with other relocated workers from Ghetto B, sleeping in rows on the floor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We also found out that we astronauts were considered celebrities, and the workers at the factory wanted to meet us, and wanted us to sign things. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran into one of the other factory workers at the bus stop, who told him with a smirk that Mammachi wanted to see him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They employed only young men, convinced that female workers would attract teenage boys to the restaurant and drive away other customers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Customs agents are government workers. They have to take care of the bodies they find.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nancy and C. J. noticed with some concern that the monkey workers around the building were not wearing respirators, despite Dalgard’s order. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The social worker slowed and stopped beside a dirty white fence. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But just two days later, the good feelings evaporated when immigrant workers at the nearby Argo corn refinery walked out and six hundred black nonunion men marched in to take their places. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For more than two decades, the church members have been led by priests who have fought for the rights of workers and the poor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And finally, a construction worker, rebuilding a ship in ways no one ever considered before this. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In December, my mother and I were transferred from Ghetto B, the section where we had been living, to Ghetto A, the area now designated for workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Where workers couldn’t be enticed into rejecting unions, owners simply mobilized to crush the movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t want to be a social worker, or the King of the Geeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ignatius handed the camera down to a worker and asked to be photographed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the conference, the New York Times published another long story in our “Driven to Distraction” series about people who feel compelled to get work done while they’re driving—“mobile workers.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the wharf, workers flashed their tin lunch buckets and grumbled for cigarettes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Indians had insisted that they were not mere workers but were citizens—and finally the government could not resist. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone else stood around it, and one of the workers took their picture. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad went from factory to factory, installing his time-saving systems, reducing worker fatigue, so as to speed up production. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow I found myself in line for sodas with Jess while Luke’s worker steered him into the line. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Thus most of my classmates, starting with their seven weeks at the Academy, were becoming a kind of migrant worker. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were very sorry, they liked her and all, and she was such a good worker and a big help to everybody. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, Africans should be trained to be menial workers, to be in a position of perpetual subordination to the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They scowled at the revelers as if to say, All of you are drones, and when winter comes, the worker bees will throw you into the snow to die. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The workers are going to scare them away.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ignatius Hipped his camera into action and aimed it at the banner and the workers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worker watched the spectacle with great interest. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their first item of business involved Arthur Devlin, hat in hand, negotiating new working codes and payment arrangements for the mine workers in exchange for access to the vein running under the town’s land. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are interviews with the kid’s tearful parents, firefighters, rescue workers, and experts on wells—because there are experts on everything these days. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

During the day, the place was busy with workers, builders, and painters who were repairing the main house and extending the outbuildings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no matter what the words said on a piece of paper, sugar workers did not work just seven hours. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The government, anticipating a man shortage, threw open Civil Service examinations for women workers in the big Thirty-fourth Street post office. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just reinforces for Pete that welcoming his own workers’ families was the right decision. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A. A. Laurie, who ran the optometrist’s shop next door, took down his eye chart from the wall as workers removed the neon eyeglasses out front. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It means there is an ever-growing pool of interchangeable workers, many of them shunting from one low- paying job to another. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

On that first day of housekeeping and last day—although I don’t yet know it’s the last—of my life as a low-wage worker in Key West, Carlie is in a foul mood. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every week, Lina—like all workers between age twelve and age fifteen—had Thursday off. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their owners, such as J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, wore diamonds, while their workers wore rags. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Pilate didn’t understand that, but she did understand the conversation she had later with the root worker and some other women in the camp. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it possible to see where the Biafran soldiers shot the Italian oil worker?” the redhead asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told her it was more than likely that we would have to live on her small salary as a social worker. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These workers, illiterate but sharp-witted, who for some reason called themselves The Club, assumed that the better-educated readers looked down on them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, of all workers, the poorest have made the least progress back to their 1973 wage levels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are workers on this stretch of track all the time; one of them might find it and hand it in to the police. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was with the hope of a peaceful and quiet place to live and work that they packed up for the move to Down even as the workers protested around them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, one of the social workers interjected, saying to the group, “Eighty degrees and sunny!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A worker lent her his horse and she rode at a breakneck pace back to the villa. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he ain’t, but he’s sure a hell of a good worker. Strong as a bull.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men on the Comer were southern working men: plumbers, carpenters, painters, drunks, con artists, retired army lifers from nearby Fort Knox, tobacco workers for Brown and Williamson, and some just plain ol’ hustlers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d park the car and walk along streets of modest bungalows, landing on a doorstep to find a hunched-over widow or a big-bellied factory worker with a can of Michelob peering through the screen door. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the last eleven months of volunteering at the chevra kadisha, I had washed old men who perished on the streets, workers killed in factory accidents, and children taken by illness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It looked like one of those trucks that they packed Mexican workers into to haul them to pick cotton against their wills. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That bothered the social workers and the forces of the law more than anything else. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of anti-immigrant propaganda, armed forces, and a fundamental devaluing of the lives of workers slammed unions into submission. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She knew enough about factory life already to realize that good workers in the weaving room made good money. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Take care of him, Love, he’s one of mine. Best worker I got.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On payday near the entrances to the mines, lines of maimed and debilitated workers begged for handouts. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Beside the huge machine were ladders on wheels that the workers pushed back and forth and climbed up on to reach the high parts. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As workers piled mountains of fresh lumber beside each building, jagged foothills of sawdust and scrap rose nearby. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The demand for labor is so great that every weekday roughly four hundred workers fly in from the mainland for construction, gardening, plumbing, and other services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were pathways built onto the top of the trussing, places for the bridge workers to get out to the cables and repair them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’d tried, without success, to get a law passed to allow immigrant workers to get permits to work in the state. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

An unskilled worker could join the local of his choice, but as union leaders expected, members sorted themselves along ethnic lines. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Anthony was an unmarried thirty-one-year-old headmistress and temperance worker; Stanton was now thirty-five and the mother of four boys, ages three months to nine years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

During a rally on May 4 to support workers seeking an eight-hour workday, a pipe bomb exploded in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, panicking both the demonstrators and the police, who opened fire. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The laundry workers earned 40 cents an hour, ranking them among the lowest paid of all war workers, but with few job options available to them, it felt like a windfall. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Few of the refugees spoke English, so communication with the aid workers was often difficult. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the men had been doctors, lawyers, teachers, Civil Service workers; there were several cooks, a preacher, a politician, and an artist. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a shrimp worker. I’m forced to shell shrimp for 18 hours a day for pennies in awful conditions. Here.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The shocking thing is that the majority of American workers, about 60 percent, earn less than $14 an hour. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thirteen miles from downtown Atlanta, a city with a growing economy and a need for low-skilled workers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The social worker wondered if Mama and Papa would be willing to care for the newborn baby for a week. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see her face, but the faces of the workers I could see were blank, perfectly so. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only reliable signs were the black plumes of smoke from the dredges and the ever-present scent of burning leaves from slash piles set aflame by workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Twin Cities job market analyst Kristine Jacobs pinpoints what she calls the “money taboo” as a major factor preventing workers from optimizing their earnings. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did a worker bee, returning to her hive after collecting honey, tell the other worker bees where to go? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the customary period of quarantine, they were permitted to leave the island, and Jewish welfare workers helped them settle in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once we got to his fields, Grampa parked the truck and turned me loose while he talked with the workers and looked over the crops. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A mob of laborers then chased the black worker through some sheep pens, beating him with shovels and brooms until he keeled over dead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her Majesty, the Austrians call their cannon, and for the past week these men have tended to it the way worker bees might tend to a queen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

No light crew marks gleamed in the darkness, no evidence of any other duct-and-scuttle workers marred the dust and rat droppings of the passage. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The workers come and go. The new ones see I’m here and assume I’m supposed to be here.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Construction workers carefully guide a panel of the Wall into place. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Verily, black and white workers did not fight each other because they hated each other, but they hated each other because they fought each other. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We pretended, for what if one of us still did believe? all the skilled workers had already been sent to other camps. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The staff included Haitian doctors, nurses, a number of aides, and community workers, about 150 in all. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The resulting hole evoked a giant grave and exuded the same musty chill, but this was not unwelcome for it provided workers with relief from the intensifying summer heat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Skilled construction workers and technicians were always brought in from outside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some argued that because the ANC was a mass organization made up mainly of ordinary workers, the leadership should come from those same ranks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The union wants to give the factory workers three days off with pay for grief leave, like if a family member dies.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“One of those workers asked me yesterday, ‘Hey, farmer, you got air-conditioning in that house of yours?’” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure everyone on the bus knew that we had spent the day in the welfare office and that Mami had just hit a social worker. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Four exposition workers lost their lives, two from fractured skulls, two electrocuted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I bet our workers will be there to take us away the minute we get back.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Upon speaking with several of the workers, all of whom seemed eager to speak with me, I discovered that they received even less pay than Miss Trixie. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"See, brothers, he's a new man. We don't want to make the mistake of judging the worker by his foreman. Some of you also work for sonsabitches, remember?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some months, if we have been very productive workers, we are given half a day to rest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton wanted to increase the number of suffragists, but she worried that most temperance workers had no real interest in women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Byrd can blame a lot on made-up construction workers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Striking was the only way workers could try to influence the mine owners, but Fannie knew that the miners would not stay on strike if their children were hungry. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The cafe waiter and all the railroad workers spoke Spanish. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With men being absorbed into the military services, with women already in demand by eager employers, the labor market was as exhausted as the war workers themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Who would have thought that the capitalists would invite me, a worker?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had two shanties in the backyard that my grandmother would rent out to migrants and seasonal workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My father, brother, and I were packed into a cattle car along with other male workers bound for Schindler's new factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Firing meant not only the loss of a job but the loss of housing, too, since most workers lived in mill villages. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He is good worker,” he said thoughtfully. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were coming to save them, but if Z had a gun and knew where another bomb was, the rescue workers weren’t going to make it in time. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I looked up for some confirmation, but the worker avoided my eye. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

One morning ripe with sun a lady drives up to the place where we hopeful workers are waiting. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the township, no other group lived as unnaturally as the migrant workers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the growth came at the expense of the workers, who were victimized by greedy owners much more interested in profits than the welfare of the labor force. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the worker he referred to was my uncle. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now I live with two of the other Swiss Chalet girls, student workers like myself, in a corridor-shaped apartment on Harbord Street. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I already know how workers are treated down in Packingtown. Just tell me what you found.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs they reach a black platform, where everything is endlessly dark save for a circus worker in a white suit who is guiding patrons inside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This time, the union set up locals for unskilled workers throughout the laborers’ neighborhoods. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm Henderson, working on the cyclotron in the next room, was used to hearing the X-ray workers shout to make themselves heard over the thrum of the tube’s oscillator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The government urged industries to provide sleeping accommodations for workers so that they would not have to return home during the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew asked, as if the worker’s question was only a matter of curiosity. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The foreman ordered the workers back to work. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Nguyen grew up watching French colonists abusing workers at plantations and mines, ripping out and exporting the country’s natural resources. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The pharmacy worker who answers the phone tells me Dad’s busy, but I say it’s an emergency. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a union organized to represent black workers there, local black professional men sought to prevent the move, which they said would hurt race and labor relations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In all, the blaze killed twelve firemen and three workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The next day, September 13, 1909, Marx & Haas locked out all one thousand union workers and gave their jobs to nonunion people. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“The workers trap rats when they don’t satisfy me enough to get fed. Some of the grass roots are said to be tasty. I wouldn’t know.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Prism is an enormous, colorful honeycomb, full of the most creative little worker bees in the history of the universe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But your career hasn’t been without controversy. There have been allegations of abuse toward workers.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The painstaking work had just one aim: to plant a crop that would end up taking the life of every worker who touched it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Eads discovered that workers began experiencing the bends at sixty feet below ground, roughly half the depth to which a Chicago caisson would have to descend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By the turn of the century, textile-mill workers outnumbered tobacco workers in Durham by a margin of two to one. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that chemicals may play a role similar to radiation has scarcely dawned on the public mind, nor on the minds of most medical or scientific workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With all the night hours she puts in, she made $83,000 last year, more than 90 percent of all American workers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A Labor Day textile workers’ strike in North Carolina quickly spread across the South and up the Eastern Seaboard. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She, the lone survivor, will start a small paper nest in the spring, lay a few eggs in its cells, and carefully rear a small force of workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The government was also building a massive factory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee—a secret city with eighty thousand workers living in trailers around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As far as they’re concerned, good riddance, one less disobedient worker to worry about. Must be something in the water here, because news on Maxwell Street is that Mrs. Walden’s son is gone, too.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There had been a note in the box, too, which Mrs. McCullough had eventually convinced the social worker to let her read: This baby name May Ling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Food service workers brought them in and sold them to the cafeteria crews, who in turn had friends or relatives mail them the payments. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When the other workers rushed in seconds before nine, Francie felt like a traitor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When these same leaders were quoted as saying that Durham had “good” race relations, a black tobacco worker retorted, “I guess things are pretty good for them.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The indentured worker, whose name was Balasumdaram, had been badly beaten by his employer. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nor does he bat an eyelash when Scoob requests a gas station stop in Shreveport to deliver hand-drawn cards to a pair of workers that say Thanks for the Anonymous Tip. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

But when that social worker and the cops leave the house, Mom cuts loose. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the desk, League staff sized up the migrants, trying, as an Urban League report explained, “to fit the workers to the jobs and the jobs to the workers.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It made me sad when Mexican farm workers were transported along that same road, like cattle packed in the backs of trucks, calling out to us to please marry them and rescue them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the matchmaker laughed and said, “Not so, not so. She is a strong horse. She will grow up to be a hard worker who serves you well in your old age.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then ride out two-and-twenty leagues. I will give you wagons, workers, mules, whatever you require.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The social worker gives a practiced sympathetic nod. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis might imprison a black market worker. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In 1917, a newly organized meatpacking workers' union called the Stockyards Labor Council made plans to bring the new black laborers into the fold. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are too many jobs and not enough workers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Governments across America at the time, including state legislatures and the US Congress, were too much under the influence of big business for the workers to gain the benefits they hoped the strikes would bring. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I suppose I could have gotten by with less, but I was determined to create some sort of identity for myself: David the hard worker, David the cut-up. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After we ate our fill, Sister Mukumbu gave us a lesson on the California grapes that we had just eaten and how the migrant workers who picked them had to fight for their rights. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gupta paid his workers stacks of rupees to threaten tenants who fell behind on their rent. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few years younger than I was, Melissa also felt more like a peer and an ally than the much younger campaign workers I’d encountered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The great assembly line pushed cows and hogs forward at the usual lightning speed, so that workers had no time to turn their thoughts or bodies to anything else. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s some kinda crazy critter miracle,” said another worker. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a stinging slap to all of the black workers who had hitched their fortunes to the white man’s union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Your mother was a skilled worker. Her dyes were steadfast. They have not faded.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Mrs. Strawberry can make a vest I’ll wear, like the workers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were people all around them—a couple of old men leaning against the wall, a group of chattering children just ahead, workers going toward the storerooms—and she didn’t want to be overheard. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“A union is like a family, it’s when a group of workers get together and try to make things better for themselves and their children.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The salesclerk smiled and called to her fellow worker. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your new worker dragged out three file storage boxes. I found all sorts of information on your birth family, foster homes, schools. . . .” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The problem of rents is easy for a noneconomist, even a sparsely educated low-wage worker, to grasp: it’s the market, stupid. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queen must produce some substance that attracts the workers and that can be obtained from her only by direct contact. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they cleared their plates, tossed their crumpled napkins into the waste container, and smoothed their uniforms in preparation for another day of work, each worker did one other routine, quick thing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She, the grand-daughter of an Imperial Entomologist, he the son of a grassroots Marxist Party worker. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, a bunch of doctors and social workers and physical therapists and whoever else got together around a big table in a conference room and discussed my situation. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

All the other workers have spent their lives working in fields, and their hands move quickly, automatically. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If pictures of Hazleton workers wearing face masks and white suits wound up on the evening news, it could cause a panic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiercel, he knew, wouldn’t come back until the workers went home. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“My class status is also office worker. My father is an actor....” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the floor comprised offices for the various mental-health-staff members—psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what he understands, the plant, which only has about forty on-site workers at any given time, has become a refuge for Applied Energy Services, and Southern California Edison employees. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the early 1800s the English figured out how to build machines to weave cloth, and how to organize workers so that they could run the machines. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The foreman and another worker carried a cot and blanket from the factory. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

There’s the factory worker whose hands were flattened like corn tortillas by a machine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He learned with astonishment that all the workers in Pomosec, except the head of the department, were girls. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Another worker tells me that Half says he was once a marine and that he is proud to talk like one. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He began giving money to support causes like labor unions and striking farm workers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, like a colony of worker ants, they dismantled their stalls and left. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We dig them and polish them right here,” volunteered the Dodecahedron, pointing to a group of workers busily employed at the buffing wheels; “and then we send them all over the world. Marvelous, aren’t they?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I found that the majority of the workers employed at all plants were either prisoners of war or German military prisoners or Russians," Dasch said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

From Feldman’s perspective, an office worker who eats a bagel without paying is committing a crime; the office worker probably doesn’t think so. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then he glanced down at the parking lot, where the emergency workers continued to hold their ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Those of you who are fellow office workers and find yourselves reading this incisive journal during a coffee break or such might take note of one or two of my innovations. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There all the workers and craftsmen that could be spared were busy. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

True, this is the one job where my references were actually checked, but what if I were one of those angel-of-death type health workers, who decided to free my charges from their foggy half-lives? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By striking, an African worker stood not only to lose his job but his entire livelihood and his right to stay in the area in which he was living. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had on the farmer’s usual baseball cap, a yellow shirt, and overalls—the stripy blue kind worn by railroad workers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dutch men mostly avoid them because soldiers prowl our public transportation looking for workers to send to their war-effort factories. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dirty section workers were the lowest of the low. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to call first thing because Willow was going to be assigned a social worker and officially have her case file opened. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The welfare worker laughed and looked over at a co-worker. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dining halls were open, though at that hour of the morning there were no students, only cafeteria workers and maintenance men eating breakfast before their shifts began. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I got dressed, I heard farm workers warming their car engines before leaving to look for work picking carrots or thinning lettuce. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That is the way Marx says all of the natural resources should be owned—not by one group of rich people but by all the workers of the world as a whole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I recall once defending an African woman employed as a domestic worker in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I broke your window. I should pay. And I can pay. I get money from helping people. Or maybe I can do something for you. I’m a good worker. I like work.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Most of the workers had gotten back from the rig in time, but a few men were covered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As one staffer saw it, the Urban League’s job was to develop “in the worker’s mind her personal responsibility to become a regular and efficient employee.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t seen him! And good riddance, too!” one of the workers replied. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham and an army of workers and guards converged on the building and together spent the night fighting the leaks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was searching for software, brainpower, complex algorithms, knowledge workers, call centers, transmission protocols, breakthroughs in optical engineering—the sources of wealth in our day. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

They divided the food preparation into separate tasks performed by different workers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Other workers were just young men: irresponsible and living for today. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I treat my workers with the respect they deserve,” Mr. Katz said, aloof. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Your showing off made her think you're a miracle worker. Made her think the arcana can be used in unintended ways. But only the God of Life can control sickness and death. Not us." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They were interested to discover some activity beneath the bridge—more workers in white uniforms, navigating a boat among the pilings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the same workers made a one-armed lunge at Roy but missed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog had been wounded many times, for the black workers were always hurling bricks at it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be likable, cooperative, and as good a worker as he could be. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Prospective parents arrived and mingled with the busloads of kids, who came with social workers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Since Andrew and Isaac were still minors, social workers started getting involved. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

White workers got higher wages, but Fred didn’t complain: eighty cents an hour was more than most Lackses had ever seen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lines like Many workers in Zimbabwe receive a small pay which can’t even feed the families and Two families have to share a room in some parts of Zimbabwe stuck out. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They advertised for workers willing to cross the picket line. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“And we are healthy. We are healthy hard workers. You never take healthy hard workers. It is one of the rules. Never.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a seamstress at a downtown department store, she repaired, altered, and steam-pressed clothing—work known and respected by both the black professional class and ordinary workers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He saw a worker stacking boxes and approached him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spray coated the fields and the flowers and smeared the faces of the workers and the spectators. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was a hard hat like construction workers wore. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

These systems were modeled on the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor, an industrial engineer, who argued that companies should be run “scientifically,” with each worker’s task minutely analyzed and quantified. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ads were posted in Spain to attract sugar workers there; even a few African Americans came from the mainland. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Each of the major strikes that took place in 1919 ended in defeat for the workers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At the time, he was earning about nine times more than the average American industrial worker’s wages, but he was ready to devote his life to battling sin and alcohol. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In between sales, some of the young market workers sniff glue. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“She says feisty people make good workers and that we have to pay her rent.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

From my vantage point at the laundry room window, I could see a thin stream of electric vehicles crawling along the cracked asphalt, carrying goods and workers into the city. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He seems eternally apprehensive, certainly too apprehensive to criticize any worker’s performance of duty. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banks, flush with cash, stayed open late to cash checks for workers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One day, a worker slashes a volunteer with a machete. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs and the workers in the yard often got the first taste of his anger, and that would let the rest of us know to lie low. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was East Durham, an area of run-down houses built around the turn of the century by the textile manufacturers for their workers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her customers were mostly migrant workers returning in truckloads from the white world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need a trained social worker nagging interference for me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Benji stood in front of a large window and watched workers load suitcases into the belly of an airplane. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The workers from the clean sections weren’t allowed in the dirty sections, and the workers from the dirty sections weren’t allowed in the clean sections. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re looking remarkably normal,” Lori the social worker says when Molly shows up at the chemistry lab for their usual biweekly meeting. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the time of the sun flares, Alec had been a contract worker for the defense department. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m shocked at how many red flags their licensing workers overlooked.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s too short to be a painter,” she said about one worker, Hector, who was over six feet tall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As the monkey trade was established throughout central Africa, the native workers in the system, the monkey trappers and handlers, were exposed to large numbers of wild monkeys, some of which were carrying unusual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the stationmaster who checked my ticket and a couple of railroad workers, the station was empty, and I wished I had a book or magazine to read while I waited for my train. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He stayed in constant touch with the workers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran to the gates, expecting to see them wide open and Mr. Wonka standing there to welcome his workers back. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mobutu’s chief postal minister, a relative of Mobutu’s wife, stopped paying all the postal workers for the last year so he could use the money to build himself a mansion in Thysville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I passed a boisterous group of workers released from their assembly lines, I yanked down the brim of my newsboy cap, afraid someone would recognize me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1980s, in an attempt to divide workers by race, professional union busters raised the issue of C.P. ’s Klan past. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He placed newspaper advertisements for carpenters and laborers, and soon workers with teams of horses began excavating the land. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On top of this workers would set down a layer of steel rails stretching from one end of the pad to the other, and over this a second layer at right angles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Friday the thirteenth, six hundred men gathered at the park to protest McArthur’s use of what they alleged were “imported” workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Had it been a weekday many lumber workers would have been working within the death zone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Frank Buck, a tin worker, had either bolted from home or died in an accident, leaving Emma to care for a young daughter, Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Union leaders John Fitzpatrick and William Z. Foster were galvanized by the golden opportunity for a big union win if they could just bring all the workers together before the bosses divided them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His name was Paul Lurz, and he was the hospital’s director of performance and improvement, but he also happened to be a social worker who’d majored in history, which was his passion. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Forty years it had taken, rising like a great shadow on the shore of the lake while Harren's armies plundered his neighbors for stone, lumber, gold, and workers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had every worker in the place yanking the paper off those bars of chocolate full speed ahead from morning till night. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

If an indentured worker chose to stay past his or her contract and settle, the worker was slapped with an annual tax, which was a heavy burden for Indians, who barely survived on their wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun used that as a bedrock and constant guide in the way he and Kathy did business, and the workers took note. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Tired of that hermeneutical delirium, the workers turned away from the authorities in Macondo and brought their complaints up to the higher courts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Because Dad was a shift worker and would often start work early the next day, we’d have dinner at 5:30 or 6 p.m. and listen to the news. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Before those new queens emerge, the old queen flies off with some of the workers to form a second hive.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There is the vegetable store worker in the fatigue jacket, the call car driver, the delivery men. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police even succeeded in turning some black workers against the students. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, as she enters the emergency room, a social worker in a pink frock rushes up to Olga. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The foreman looked me over and said, “Boy, you a good worker?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We survived the Holocaust because of the enormous risks Schindler took and the bribes and backroom deals he brokered to keep us, his Jewish workers, safe from the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The man we saw on the ground probably lagged behind the other workers and didn’t hear the foreman tell them to stop. He might have worked all night, getting thirstier and thirstier—” “Stop!” shrilled Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other person who speaks this bluntly to her is Lori the social worker, and she already knows the details of her story. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One on one, the lowly worker was no match for the powerful restaurant owner who could fire and replace him in an instant. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most look young and all are thin and dark-skinned, like the peasant workers at our uncle’s farm, with greasy long hair flowing past their shoulders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Imadas, on the other hand, were consistently hard workers, including the five little girls. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the Cotswold sees improvement, workers coming and going and restoring, it is like she expects to see the same measure of improvement in me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Employers, of course, do little to encourage the economic literacy of their workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had come prepared to admire the grand achievement of Burnham’s army of workers but instead found himself troubled by what he saw in the stark frozen landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Waitresses chafed at managers’ stinginess toward the customers; housecleaners resented the time constraints that sometimes made them cut corners; retail workers wanted the floor to be beautiful, not cluttered with excess stock as management required. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the workers wear maroon aprons and funny chef hats and they say “Yes, ma’am,” and “Yes, sir,” to everyone, even to me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Once, she organized a picket outside of the DSS offices, and while workers were distracted by the commotion, Ann went inside, located a copy of the department’s thick regulations manual, and smuggled it out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1964 near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, three young civil rights workers—two white, one black—were killed by a mob of Klansmen for helping local blacks register as voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons that have more to do with class—and often racial—prejudice than with actual experience, they tend to fear and distrust the category of people from which they recruit their workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t know what was going on until the workers told me.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The workers had left in a big hurry. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Roosevelt and the others passed the graves marked with wooden crosses, they raised their hats, acknowledging Rondon’s workers who had died. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought they were sending me away at first. I thought the car was the social worker’s.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Prison workers should be retrained for jobs and careers that do not involve caging human beings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then the workers, foraging ceaselessly through the hot days of summer, will destroy countless caterpillars. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Is it best to let owners set rules, which is likely to give all of us cheaper coal, or to have the government set standards, which is more likely to protect workers and the environment? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

One group of illiterate migrant workers began asking me to read and write letters to and from the wives and children back in the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The everyday life of District 12—workers to the mines, kids to school—resumed its usual pace. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some were from peasant families, some were the children of intellectuals, some were the children of factory workers and had worked in factories themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the voice of the worker, Springsteen sings, “Now, sir, you tell me the world’s changed. Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He is so speedy, so wily, that mall workers long ago gave up trying to catch him. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I turned beseeching eyes to the social worker. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The social workers that she confided in invariably suggested that she enroll Bobby in a small private school where he could receive closer attention and where he could develop at his own pace. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Through seams in the duct they could see the Norwegian worker at his desk. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the bridge, Red Cross workers, wearing porcelain-smooth white helmets with red lines on them, looked like police as they offered us candy and said, “Welcome.” Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The station building was heavily damaged, but there were workers atop scaffolding at the ceiling. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Other workers dragged his mother to a shaded rest area, where she regained consciousness. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

No one, aside from the doctors and nurses and a social worker, has been in to see me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many domestic workers in South AMca, when they get pregnant they get fired. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A way to plant hatred between the starving workers of the Seam and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Galileo heard from a worker that these pumps had a problem: they could only lift water about 33 feet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, guaranteed workers the right to form unions and collectively bargain for fair wages and workplace safety. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A report about a fourteen-year-old worker’s accidental death at one of the Union Stockyards’ kosher slaughterhouses, accompanied by a brief statement by the factory boss, Mr. Katz. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the first quarter of 2000, the poorest 10 percent of workers were earning only 91 percent of what they earned in the distant era of Watergate and disco music. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other buildings were well under way, including, incredibly, the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, where hundreds of workers swarmed its scaffolds and roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some black senior social worker had been given a month off to investigate the “Black Muslims” in the Harlem area. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was given the opportunity to study law in England, he faced the same problem as the indentured sugar workers: He would lose caste if he crossed the black water. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She looked to the waiting worker and back to me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She told Inspector Thomas Mathew of the circumstances that had led to the sudden dismissal of a factory worker. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were police involved and social workers already on high alert. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The worker knew the FBI kept watch on the building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not in this sea of workers with factory injuries. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Kira, in Thomas’s room, looked down through the window at the squalor of the village and listened to its chaotic din as workers in the various sheds finished their last chores. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before he had read an extraordinary proclamation to the nation which said that the workers had left the station and had returned home in peaceful groups. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were believed to be hundreds or possibly even thousands of workers and an unknown number of fire, police, and rescue personnel still trapped in the two buildings when they went down. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He paid all the seasonal workers and settled all the accounts. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

How much does each worker get if they get a total of $1,254 dollars? Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

These houses were built by the municipal authorities for workers who needed to be near town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could head up to Napoleon and St. Charles and ask the officers and aid workers there how he could get out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The Germans need good, healthy workers here in the ghetto,” the director said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

News of Fannie’s leadership in the garment workers’ union reached coal miners in Colliers, West Virginia, and she was asked to visit. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Of course it looks to Terry like Molly is just twiddling her thumbs, letting the time slide like a government worker punching a clock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I waited, shivering, for the workers in Uncle Tian’s kiosk to fetch him. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the river, workers had erected a wooden platform for the Autumn Faire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The rescue workers wander, stare, peel off their shredded gloves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Machines set the pace and workers could not choose when to stop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

From being a mobile lunch counter, she set up a stand between the two points of fiscal interest and supplied the workers’ needs for a few years. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at once production workers began to exhibit the staggered gait and confused faculties that mark the recently poisoned. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I don’t want to give up the fun I have with my co- workers, especially Don Lucho with his gold tooth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer moved into full swing and so did the meatpacking workers’ union, the Stockyards Labor Council. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The migrant worker unzipped his fly and exposed his intimates. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His father’s a good worker, sir. The whole island’s been struggling since the cyclone.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, workers were simply born into mill life and very few escaped it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The situation was threatening to lead to a bloody and unequal civil war when the authorities called upon the workers to gather in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I forced myself not to run as I pushed through the arriving workers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The social worker told her that if she could just pass a few tests in a row, they’d let us move back in with her. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The craft work—no, they would not get that But it was a major job, and the government seemed to favor opening up employment to black workers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Food is rationed. She said the guards oversee the farm and the workers,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The principal made Cara go and apologize to the cafeteria workers. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

At ladies’, I relate the news to Melissa, adding that the hotel workers already earn over a dollar an hour more than we do and that that hasn’t stopped them from striking for more. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of workers were intimidated, beaten, hauled from their homes, and jailed on flimsy charges. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In his classic 1974 study Getting a Job, Granovetter looked at several hundred professional and technical workers from the Boston suburb of Newton, interviewing them in some detail on their employment history. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one of the eight towers of the Ferris Wheel was in place and workers had not yet completed repairs to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As we drove several miles down a lane into the forest, he told me he was a sawmill worker and never made quite enough to get out from under his debts. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day that the social worker picked up Baby Emma to bring her home to her birth mother, Mama let us each hold her for a few minutes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as soon as the strike began, the Seattle Central Labor Council called for a general strike of all workers throughout the city—an unheard-of act. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There was a tall bonfire in the middle of town, and smaller ones outside the houses where people would be giving cider to the weary workers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Beginning that Saturday workers would begin hanging cars, thus placing upon the wheel its first serious stresses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A month ago he’d been an ordinary guy, a construction worker who did some extra work on the side at a friend’s T-shirt shop. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His mother, now a clinical social worker living and practicing in Choteau, Montana, was enormously grateful. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was relentless in his efforts to pay the workers well and promptly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

White-clad mess-hall workers mill around the steam tables, walk back and forth wiping off the tables with rags, tie up bags of garbage, and mop up spills. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above and behind, at various angles, workers pack sand into core molds, or hammer plugs into molds, or put casting boxes into the cupola furnace. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I had heard enough Spanish from Mexican workers that following the language wasn’t so hard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out came a worker dragging two hugely swollen black plastic bags. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They tell him he has to stop using Catholic peasants and workers as models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When the workers drew up a list of unanimous petitions, a long time passed before they were able to notify the banana company officially. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Budget Lodging clerk, who seems to have some familiarity with the housing nightmares of low-wage workers, suggests I keep trying motels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back, workers tended to giant barbecue and kanyenya stands loaded with delicious goat and beef. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The social worker told Grandpa that he needed to keep us together, which meant we’d either all go back to Columbus or we’d all stay in Spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Today, both business owners and the public are far more aware of the necessity of protecting the worker. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In addition to the tiny shacks, substantial wood, brick, and stone structures were begun as well, and an army of workers emerged to do the job. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Settling into his niche as a miracle worker for tough and neurotic horses, Pollard earned assignments on nearly three hundred mounts and guided them to more than $20,000 in total purse earnings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We keep ourselves pressed as closely against the side of the bank as we can so idle soldiers and drunk workers above can't see us past all the grass and rocks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Guards also allowed workers—about five thousand adult prisoners and a couple of hundred students from the camp’s secondary school—to catch fish and frogs from the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A chorus of screams broke out among the workers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Next workers attached the ten-ton chain to the sprockets and to a receiving sprocket at the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m not putting these children through this again,” Mr. Hines said to the worker. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She is extremely close with her mother, a teacher in the Trenton public schools, and her father, a social worker and published poet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once, from a seat on a slow-moving train, Clayton had seen subway workers standing on the walkway carrying lanterns while repairing the tracks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Imagine Obama, skin the color of a toasted almond, hair kinky, saying to a census worker—I’m kind of white. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The foreman and other workers came in there and tried to help me stand because I had fallen to the floor, but I couldn’t get up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers woke early, and for the first few months they were “seasoned”—learning the numbing work of hoeing or weeding or loading the barges with cut cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Since Papa did not speak English, Mama asked the camp foreman if he needed any more workers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s that nest everyone’s so riled up about,” he said to Dan Martin, a Mohawk Indian whose balance and fearlessness on high girders made him one of the most valuable bridge workers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Mail in impoverished countries is often opened by postal workers,” my mom explained. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jackson won programs to educate newly arrived workers, selling the idea as a good way for business owners to win black allegiance. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One owner hired a full-time nurse to care for workers and their families. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

White workers understood the lure of the Klan and a majority of black workers, believing in redemption, accepted C.P.’s change. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I called around to various economists in the summer of 2000 and complained about the inadequacy of the wages available to entry-level workers, this was their first response: “But wages are going up!” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her charisma and passion roused the workers, as she cared for the sick and helped mothers in childbirth. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“The workers are finished. Alter the Gathering and this year’s Song, you’ll be able to start dyeing new threads for the robe.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Housewives, priests, doctors, lawyers, traders, students, and workers took their place in the front lines of the protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owners saw it as an effort to shake them down, but for the Mexicans it became a class struggle pitting powerless workers against hard-hearted owners. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Through the hanging smoke, Lefty saw other streetcars letting off other workers, hundreds and hundreds of gray figures trudging across the paved courtyard toward the factory gates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My mom walked up to the construction worker and told him he had no right to park his vehicle there. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The import of the remark was clear to his audience: it meant that two young soldiers, who had been standing trial for the murder of a Kansas railroad worker, had received the ultimate sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Soweto Zulu migrant workers were reported to have formed vigilantes groups and, with police license, hacked, stabbed and clubbed.students to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouldered his way through a bunch of cafeteria workers who had come outside to see what was going on. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

With a grunt the worker heaved one bag, then the other into the Dumpster. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

This woman was apparently a skilled worker, and I thought it doubly unfortunate that she was not lending her talents to the creation of a pair of Levy Pants . . . pants. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch another worker said there was someone else she wanted us to meet, but Luke took the opportunity to bolt toward the baseball diamond. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The hospital made an appointment for Mom to meet with a social worker and discuss the situation. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The janitors, the laborers, the cafeteria workers themselves did not take lunch in the main cafeteria. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They were not any of our regular workers, so they must have been supervisors or licensing inspectors. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I asked my social worker as soon as she showed up at the hospital. It was a concussion, but...” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then, in December 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and it was like Turner Station had won the lottery: the demand for steel skyrocketed, as did the need for workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The scythes moved faster than the flames—faster than the flow of workers trying to escape. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I think there are rescue workers trying to come up through the stairs from below. I need to find Z and tell him.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the workers he referred to as “my people,” Erwin built a huge auditorium where they attended concerts and plays, movies and flower shows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man shrugged and crossed the road to help his fellow workers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I'm in the shadows of the entryway watching as the social worker gets in her car and pulls away from the curb. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Some worker must have left one of the cutting tables sticking in a furnace on Friday evening. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, his social worker, Allison, came over and told them that he had two sisters who wanted to meet him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The paternalism that governed relations between white planters and slaves in the Old South was extended in the New South to include poor white factory workers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he was incarcerated there, he couldn’t imagine what workers were available and ready to work long hours a day after the hurricane, but the answer makes a certain amount of sense. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a banner headline in the Star Tribune: 1,450 hotel workers, members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, strike nine local hotels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Civilian workers had masks and gloves to protect them from the chemicals, but we prisoners had no protection,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly none of the workers had gone to the police. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Cook, who worked at the elementary school attended by Mrs. Colbey's children, eventually instructed one of the school cafeteria workers to call the police about the absent infant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are two workers on my roof, right over the bunker in the attic, and a little crowd of neighbors in the yard, watching the spectacle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he understood the layout of the building, he circled to the front and told the monkey workers that he wanted the back areas of the building completely sealed off—airtight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cortege passed in front of a construction site and the workers dropped their tools, removed their helmets, and, with bowed heads, formed a single line. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually black workers moved up to the boiler room, where they shoveled coal into a blazing furnace. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That same month, our Post and Telecommunications Corporation, or PTC, fired more than six hundred people, causing the other workers to go on strike. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The officer peered down at me, grunted, and signaled for me to join the group of workers leaving for Schindler's sub-camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was clear that if workers of the two races ever united they could challenge the industrialists’ rule. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And what if you had three wishes?” the intake worker asked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They saw no helicopters, but there were rescue workers milling in the parking lot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

With its formal closure thousands more workers joined the swelling army of the unemployed, and homeless men took up residence among the great abandoned palaces of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But just as Haas removed the cloth from the ground, he was distracted by the excited shouts of a group of workers a hundred feet away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Give me twenty workers like her and I’d open a small factory and make a million,” his father used to joke. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pigsty stank, and so did the outhouse, the refuse pit, and the field workers plowing in the sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Several men grab the worker from behind and take him from the fields. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three railroad workers had been thrown in jail for mocking a Liberty Bond poster, and a woman had been fined for sending twenty dollars to her mother in Germany. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His father was a factory worker whose education ended at the eighth grade; his mother had some factory jobs, too. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every day, at sunset, the workers would return to their homes and I would be alone until the next morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fired by Sam Westing himself for trying to organize the workers. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than four million workers stayed home in what was the largest political strike in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ito paused, looked straight into my eyes, and, raising his voice, added, “He was a good, serious worker.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Schools across the country dispatched social workers to “help young people cope with what they’re hearing,” but in the hallways of Shaker Heights High School, the mood was hilarity rather than trauma. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sign and we go meet the lady bakery workers. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We were instructed never to reveal details of our home life to any figures of authority: teachers, social workers, cops, storekeepers, or even friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a privilege which was extended to trustworthy slaves who were good workers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, friends of Farmer’s found a homeless shelter for Joe, but of course the social workers had to remind Farmer that shelter rules forbade alcohol consumption. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In his first month in office, Barack signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which helped protect workers from wage discrimination based on factors like gender, race, or age. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The blood that sprayed over the food trays was wiped off by the line workers and they kept spooning up our chow. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The first great strike of 1919 began on January 21, when thirty-five thousand Seattle, Washington, shipyard workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The cemetery workers began rolling up the tarp, preparing to put the coffin in the ground. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you started counseling yet?” the new worker asked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We leave the big island with crowds of office workers going home early for the weekend. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early decades, women workers were easy for the men to ignore. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By now I knew that foster parents were paid for taking care of me and that they could trade troublesome kids with a single call to their worker. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At twelve hundred it was unexpectedly announced that all workers in the Ministry were free till tomorrow morning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“They closed the furrier’s and reassigned all the workers inside the camp. Your uncle was made leader of a group breaking rocks. When Goeth demanded to know how much work had been done...” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Remarkable men,” the count said, glancing at the workers who were making sure that, from above, the black stretch of tarmac would look like bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This created new jobs, and, within four years, nearly all factory workers were employed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

True, it had been noticed that skin cancer was prevalent among workers exposed to arsenic fumes in copper smelters and tin foundries in Cornwall and Wales. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I thought how maybe I wasn’t cut out to be no good worker or whatever. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Five years ago, volunteer construction workers from Abnegation repaved some of the roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The next day went by without the mobile unit moving its tanks or the government giving in to the workers’ demands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, laboring around the clock, workers cook and clean the bubbling liquid so that the sweetest syrup turns into the sweetest sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Lumber and empty crates and the remains of workers’ lunches lay everywhere. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Here were all the workers in the shipyard unpaid for the last month. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, around three o’clock that second afternoon they let us in and we found the social worker. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just looked at die social workers: ‘ ‘Now, what do you think? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helped military families and defense workers find suitable places to live, played the piano during the USO’s rollicking singalongs, and coordinated a calendar of Girl Scout troop meetings and military rallies. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was really pleased the social worker lady had done what she said and acted so quickly. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Technically, I was also supposed to produce a Corporate Mandated Smile, but I was not a miracle worker. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Pattie remembered the note that Willow had written the first day she met her social worker at the nail salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Which of us, I wonder, knew more about that Harlem ghetto “sub-culture”? I, who had hustled for years in those streets, or that black snob status-symbol-educated social worker? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitiker was struck by his manners and how he spoke like the teachers and social workers she had known growing up— enunciating his words, slipping in a few she didn’t know. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The public transportation workers had voted to end their strike. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You say my workers are coming to you with complaints ...” “Oh yes, correct,” Comrade Pillai said. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a frenzy, local police rounded up labor leaders and suspected radicals, plus hundreds of workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He brought it back and said, “I’ll call the worker and arrange a sibling visit,” he said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Most people didn’t know who had started the blaze, but she did: Hale’s workers, on his orders, had torched the land for the insurance money—$30,000 in all. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But another part was filled with trucks coming and going and workers shouting at one another. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Most TB patients, for example, were treated in their huts by one of the clinic’s health workers, and the entire cost was usually no more than $200 per patient. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Looking closely at Molly’s file, Lori the social worker settles on a stool. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Labor unions, an avenue for upward mobility for Northern workers, had been rendered ineffectual or were demolished altogether by the Dixie plutocracy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was no mean achievement, since he was a Lutheran in a town dominated by Catholics; Sebald was clearly a hard worker and a pillar of the community. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I could see the desks lined up, still waiting for workers. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a McDonald’s is jammed at lunch hour with office workers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Er...er...it was a poor mending job on the fence, sir. Don’t worry—I’ve sacked that worker already.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as the days went by, the aid workers confirmed the news. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bath is an excellent idea, younger sister, and they need fresh clothes, too. Those rags can be fed to the metal worker’s furnace. I wouldn’t dare use them in a cook fire.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of Grammer’s workers later admitted to authorities, “I had the assurance that if I was ever arrested...I would be turned out in five minutes.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He closed it and opened another: the smoke-laden air over an industrial city, with a line of chained and sullen workers trudging into a factory. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

During the next week, some workers, my brother David among them, had to exhume hundreds of bodies from the mass graves where they had been thrown and burn them. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The stones were indeed scattered, and mixed inextricably with those of other workers: but when we had collected what we reckoned to be our pile no one raised any objections. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the new workers, exhausted and disoriented from their trip, arrived in the Caribbean, not much had changed since the days of slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

During the strike I sometimes went with him from mine to mine, talking to workers and planning strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news hit me in Geneva, where I had stopped for several days to talk with the Swiss phage worker Jean Weigle, who was just back from a winter of work at Cal Tech. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But now there were more and more “free” workers—those who had moved off the estates and lived in their own houses, splitting their time between sugar work and their own businesses. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If a boiler happened to overheat, my dad claimed to be one of only a few workers with enough experience to swiftly and ably contain a disaster. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The workers formed rapidly, smiling and sticking one another with their engines of war. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the social worker who speaks to Gran and Gramps in hushed sympathetic tones. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther down the beach, the old-world wrecks still lay black on the sand like mangled bodies, still leaking oil and chemicals, still swarming with workers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A steady stream of overcaffeinated office workers scurried across the lobby and in and out of the elevators and exits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon, Shin was asked to spy on his fellow workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the spring of 1919, the insect known as the boll weevil had destroyed entire cotton crops, throwing thousands of black agricultural workers out of work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But somehow, more than four weeks had passed and she had yet to do more than check in with Lenore Cole, who was Willow's social worker. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A wiry, hard-partying man with a prematurely weathered face that brought to mind an old football, he’d been a postal worker for more than twenty-seven years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazi businessman who took over the company immediately fired all the Jewish workers, all except my father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The average black worker made about half as much money as the average white. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

All of Holland is being punished for the workers’ strikes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A team of revival workers made their way from the ambudrone and began to prepare the body for transport. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One lets out a halfhearted woof as Daddy’s field workers, five Negroes, pull up in a truck bed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If the union could bring all workers together, it would be a powerful force to contend with. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was a social worker who lived in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, which is 160 miles from the state capital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If the weaving room is short of workers, Mr. Marsden may assign me another loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most of these businesses reopened, however, which led temperance workers to realize that they would have to change the laws. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Time lines of labor-union victories do not always show the depth of the struggles and the sacrifices made to achieve gains in workers’ rights. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Poking through the earth at the workers’ feet was something that resembled the edge of a dinner plate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I walked through the snow for a few miles until a white RIA worker picked me up and delivered me to the front door. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support black sanitation workers who were being treated unfairly in their jobs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But then things got harder, and the government social workers started coming by our house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The half-men surveyed the dock workers with a calm detachment so much like Tool that they could have been brothers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The system makes a false promise to students,” said John T. Casteen III, the president of the University of Virginia, himself the son of a Virginia shipyard worker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The farm area, where a few workers were still picking their way through the fields, spread across the entire northeast quarter of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But one of the farm workers was already pulling the puppy out of the pen and placing her in my arms. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Berrange read him the first passage, which concerned the need for ordinary workers to cooperate with each other and not exploit one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black workers going home on foot ran helter-skelter down streets and alleys, ducking into doorways, jumping walls, crawling into cellars, the stampede of footsteps behind them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He is a big, hefty fellow, and he looks down at me and says there has been trouble—the workers will not be out today—no, not even to eat. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gangs of Communist-organized workers were the ones who did the rioting. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you forgotten that I, too, am a worker?” she said with some satisfaction. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

America's factories efficiently mass-produced military weapons, planes, tanks, cars, and other machinery with fewer workers and at a lower cost. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When a group of 3 steps up—a mom and her 2 daughters, who are barely 48 inches tall—the worker gives me a choice. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know how much he knew about what my father did each day, but Schindler certainly realized he was a skilled, resourceful worker. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A typical office worker was getting interrupted by various media stimulation every three minutes in 2004, according to research by Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But he’s a very good boy, and he’s a good worker. He cleans the animal cages at the research lab. He will be like a brother to you.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day workers opened a double grave and filled this too with cement, then inserted Holmes’s coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The aftermath was horrific, with media reports showing hospitals without backup power, distraught families herded into the Superdome, emergency workers hamstrung by a lack of supplies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Both she and her husband were hard workers and together brought in a respectable income. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I read in a book that they cut off the workers’ hands if they hadn’t collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They teach us that scholars are superior to workers. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The social worker wasn’t going to be swept out quite so easily. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She sat down and pushed me aside, emptying the box onto the floor and sorting the letters into piles with the speed of a postal worker. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He draws fast—the pretty women, the tired construction worker, the happy new mom, and the homeless man. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But becoming a social worker is your dream. You need a degree for that.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Donay tells me that at the end of the last zafra, the central boss did tell all of the workers who were old or sick they must return to Haiti. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It will be my pleasure, Father,” the young man replied lazily, “but why not just send Noah? He’s able-bodied. Perfectly good waste of a strong worker, seems to me.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Southern colonies did not hesitate to invent ways to extend the terms of servitude, and the planter class accumulated uncultivated lands to restrict the options of free workers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I have to go check out the old building with the broken-down bull. One of the workers told me they peeked in the window and saw a bunch of mice running around.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“His name is Rock. He has two...guys...with him. He says we’ve got to pay him or he’ll harm our workers. He plans to take over the business.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“He sort of lost some revenue. The Corporation posted second, third, and fourth quarter losses totaling around forty billion? So, you know, they had to make some sacrifices, let some workers go.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And although I knew he gave them a $100 bonus every now and then I never let on that I felt he was anything but cruel to his workers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “I’m a very hard worker. I work so hard, I’ll do the work of three men.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Farmer listened to their requests for an additional community health worker in their area, and I was sure he would find a way to oblige them. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And so were their children and grandchildren, because the lessons those garment workers brought home with them in the evenings turned out to be critical for getting ahead in the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

See the concrete bam where workers live, the small church with tall voodoo drums for calling spirit, the wash flapping, women roasting peanuts, men slapping dominoes, pigs running here and there. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big buildings that used to hold hundreds of workers sat empty. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I accepted as many as I could fit into my school schedule, including keynote addresses at several large conferences for judges, social workers, and foster parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Of course they were all diligent workers as well; but youth was a time when a certain amount of lightheartedness was tolerated. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It must have been built, red brick by red brick, to be the most magnificent building the workers had ever seen, like a European cathedral. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No report about Young had come from the Communist party, but since Young seemed a conscientious worker, I did not think the omission serious in any case. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the town a water reservoir had been built for the tannery workers and their families, but now others were allowed a limited quantity as well. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orders were pouring into northern factories for food, clothes, and munitions for soldiers fighting in Europe, and the factories were looking for new workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At this hour, the Yards swarmed with workers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And it was realized that workers in the cobalt mines in Saxony and in the uranium mines at Joachimsthal in Bohemia were subject to a disease of the lungs, later identified as cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are shots of workers double-checking the tech hookups. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, dramatic technological changes revolutionized the workplace—changes that eliminated many of the jobs that less skilled workers once relied upon for their survival. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The floats were followed by a procession of tanks, soldiers, sailors, marines, industrial workers, and others who were protecting America's home front. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Every Friday and Saturday night our two tiny rooms were packed with migrant workers, menial labourers and garbage collectors, buying drinks till well past midnight. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if business had been normal the Bureau couldn’t have handled it because the workers began to go. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, like everyone else—social workers, teachers, foster parents;—he’ll get fed up, feel betrayed, realize Molly’s more trouble than she’s worth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then there were the seats left dirty or wet by previous inhabitants that the kitchen workers had failed to wipe clean. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights later the city’s unions met with officers of the fair to demand that they limit the workday to eight hours, pay union-scale wages, and hire union workers before all others. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After each instance, union people eventually found the wherewithal to rally and try again, until 1934, when companies were forced by the federal government to recognize unions and negotiate with workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

However, the less expensive coffee shop that opened on the parking lot was kept busy serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner to tenants "ordering up" and to workers from nearby Westingtown. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they used to set up the workers with housing, too. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

To everyone’s surprise, the workers, half of whom were women, fired back their own letters to the editor, stressing the class division between them and those blacks who criticized the union movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like most things in the Night Zoo, the terms and conditions held by its indentured workers only benefitted one person. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers— the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being “reamed out” by managers—are part of what keeps wages low. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the workers took walks in pairs or groups, but again tonight the others were tired after the unusual day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The trio walked quickly, and Nailer almost lost them twice amongst the thump of workers and crew on the floating docks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Santos, who once worked with Lourdes’s stepfather as a bricklayer, is such a speedy worker that in Honduras his nickname was El Veloz. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The worker came out, but this time there was nothing in his hands but a can of Sprite. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The ten empty seats became an obsession to weary workers,” wrote Jo Ann Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College at the time. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just do your best,” her social worker had said, giving her a lame thumbs-up. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their company has done a world of good, for its land, its workers, the growers it works with, and its customers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I look over her shoulder, and the social worker is standing on the porch next door, talking with Mrs. Trent, taking notes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strike against wage cuts swept west along the rails through Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, to San Francisco—100,000 workers halting commerce for forty-five days. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It took thousands of workers eight months to clear 1.8 billion tons of debris from the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site in New York. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When demand for steel increased during World War I, streams of white workers moved into the nearby town of Dundalk, and Bethlehem Steel’s housing barracks for black workers quickly overflowed, pushing them into Turner Station. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after this Arthur Goldreich and his family moved into the main house as official tenants and I took over the newly built domestic workers’ cottage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had met wonderful doctors and nurses and other hospital workers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When a concerned company worker complained of the leaks, the company addressed the problem by painting the tank brown so the leaks wouldn’t be easily noticed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the Khmer Rouge agrarian society, only good workers are valuable, all others are expendable. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These workers who sympathized with Nazario knew that they had a union, so it would be difficult for them to lose their jobs. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The few people entering the building had to be the last of the PFC workers, fleeing the East once and for all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Arriaga’s Red Cross workers retrieve, on average, ten migrants per month who have fallen or been beaten up by bandits or gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She asked people to support the striking garment workers in St. Louis by buying only clothes with the “union-made” label inside them. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It was heading out with day workers to Santa Monica, which was supposed to be on the ocean. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So all in all, with some demerits for screwups and gold stars for effort, I think it’s fair to say that as a worker, a jobholder, I deserve a B or maybe B+. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five people were killed in or near the fair, including a worker obliterated while helping prepare the night’s fireworks and a visitor who stepped from one grip-car into the path of another. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Yeah, they most likely linked us to the tied-up store worker, got our descriptions, and maybe they even knew we were from the Lighthouse, but it’s not like we’d hurt anybody really. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday night, end of the week, which meant Abel was drinking with his workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon the number of patients being treated by Socios en Salud jumped to about fifty—students, housewives, street vendors, health workers, unemployed youth. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

How the workers jumbled everything they found into five caskets and carted them off the island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know yet. It has to do with a worker who died there.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks . The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers, who had been content to wait until then, went into the woods with no other weapons but their working machetes and they began to sabotage the sabotage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Flinging open the kitchen door, I rushed into the backyard, past the workers in the sugarcane fields, past the tractors, their noise blurring into the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Aunt Mary liked to boss all her workers around, and one day she told Dennis to pick up a huge roll of leather and take it to Manhattan by subway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an aquarium worker, she didn’t seem to know much or care much about the smaller fish. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later workers scuffled with police outside City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to end the strike, and workers went back to their jobs, taking lower wages. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“They’re good men. Hard workers. Loyal. They know about respect and honor and standing to with their friends.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had heard that a grape grower there, named Mr. Patrini, had nice places for farm workers to live. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“One of my workers just came in saying there was a man flying above the factory.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When they moved into the Rookery at La Salle and Adams, a gorgeous light-filled structure of Root’s design, they saw views of the lake and city that no one but construction workers had seen before. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are crops, animals grazing on the slopes, workers in distant fields. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Henry Ford declared that the perfect assembly line factory worker would be a blind man because he could learn one exact task and repeat it endlessly for the rest of his life. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The social workers estimated she was two months old when she came to us, give or take a couple of weeks. That was January thirtieth. So we decided we’d celebrate November thirtieth as her birthday.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the first few decades after the Union Stock Yard opened, white packinghouse workers were not focused on blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The workers agreed to let me collect the leftover water in a can. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If there are any more, it could cause a cascading failure in the grid—and with so many electrical workers AWOL, there’s no telling when such a thing would be resolved. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Music from a jukebox blared from the windows; men in stained overalls, factory workers, and women in frayed dresses were sitting on the crumbling front steps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Blakeslee bragged a lot about my daddy being such a dandy worker. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But though I was a worker, everyone treated me like a guest. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique watches workers pull strips of meat from a vat, put them on large chopping blocks, and cut them up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dawn Celeste tells everyone that she’s a retired social worker and perpetual wanderer, and Luke is a college student on hiatus. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The majority of the workers are citizens from Two,” says Beetee neutrally. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With the fervor of lawyers, the inmates tried to convince St. George that mess-hall workers were paid so little they deserved any extras they could find. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning the tannery had its full complement again, most of them workers who had gone back, the remainder men who were only too glad to obtain employment. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And nobody else was talking either; no mention about the laundry workers who appeared and disappeared; no mention about the sitter. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re also trying to keep open the agricultural extension program, training former rubber workers to subsistence farming. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The credit crisis has left businesses large and small unable to get loans, which means they can’t buy new equipment, or hire new workers, or even make payroll for the workers they have. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Du Bois described as “the public and psychological wage” paid to white workers, who depended on their status and privileges as whites to compensate for low pay and harsh working conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The longshoremen’s victory launched the modern labor movement in the western United States, in which workers have the right by law to form unions and bargain with employers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I turned around to see the worker who had shouted to me from the wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I heard the Nazis were rounding up workers to send them to another camp, I made sure I was at the front of the line. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no evidence that any worker checked on me during the five months I was there, even though they were already investigating Mr. Potts for molestation. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My mother also was always a hard worker. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of black workers, including many who were elderly and some who were disabled, set out from home in the predawn darkness and walked miles each day. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He was known as a diligent worker, and his skill and leadership qualities were plain to all his subordinates. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Silk worker? I’m a silk worker. I know everything.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There are hundreds of workers here—I never do find out how many—and sooner or later I’ll meet them all. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a nearby room lit by dim red lights, she had watched another gloved worker look through trays of stacked fertilized eggs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One spring day in April 1914, as nonunion workers neared the mine, a striker threw a punch, and everybody jumped in slugging. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A man is coming fast down the alley, wearing dirty coveralls like a worker, a cap pulled low on his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

To the many injured who do return to Central America, the hospital social worker pleads, “Tell other people there not to travel this way.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But as the focus remained on the plight of the low-paid black workers, many blacks began to take notice. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They also told us how to interview for a job and how you should explain what a good person and hard worker you were. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when I came across a pair of workers sharing a cigarette between them, it took all my confidence to meet their eyes and nod. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her son saw my embarrassment and in his boyish way tried to ease the tension by saying that “Uncle Nelson” had always treated her as a sister not a worker. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had tailed Ministry workers on their way in, eavesdropped on their conversations, and learned by careful observation which of them could be relied upon to appear, alone, at the same time every day. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The record number of strikes would lead to an awareness of the plight of the American worker and to union recognition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Even fifteen years after his death there was only one key available for late workers. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The frustrated Stirling asked the workers to expose the back of the slab by digging beneath it and levering up the stone with poles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some other workers from his village came in the mornings, white or mestizo, it didn’t matter. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a series of new workers showed up at the laundry; they each worked for a week before they disappeared. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the worker aimed the lens at him, Ignatius scowled and shook a fist, entertaining the workers greatly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a very good worker,” I said quickly. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

These urbanites were to be permanent reinforcements for “rice-planting combat,” the annual campaign that sends office workers, students, and soldiers to the countryside for two months in the spring and two weeks in the fall. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When nobody else appeared, our worker took us back to our respective foster homes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He thinks he might want to become a therapist like Ana, or maybe a social worker like Allison. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I know your social worker mentioned that we might email you. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Managers didn’t care what language workers spoke, as long as they showed up on time. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The patron would buy things wholesale and resell them at cost to his workers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He discovered a number of workers from the editorial and composing rooms still in the building. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the war, workers throughout the nation, no matter how dissatisfied they had become, demonstrated their patriotism by staying on the job and working harder than ever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

An argument that he had "essential" enamelware workers wouldn't have meant anything to the decision makers, but the argument that we were essential to Germany's munitions production did. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Nor did I expect to meet so many workers with college diplomas. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dinner guests and workers from the Starlight Room settled down wherever they could find seats. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder what he thought he’d get to see, as a boat worker,” Rolf commented. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Three marchers wearing shiny steel helmets identified themselves as construction workers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went, the three of us, to the quarry, joining the bedraggled groups of workers toiling along the winding, muddy road. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Gold was starting to realize that the Soviet Union was hardly the workers’ paradise Tom Black had described. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All kinds of professions now crowded in together, foundry workers and lawyers, maids and carpenters, doctors and hoodlums, but most people, this being 1932, were unemployed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I am told,” the king said, sagging like the winter branches weighted by snow, “that the workers are treated worse than slaves and the emperor has the fallen buried under the wall.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was rather frightening, this vast sculpture of a witch and a wizard sitting on ornately carved thrones, looking down at the Ministry workers toppling out of fireplaces below them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

So they did everything they could to discourage the Indians—indentured workers were beaten by their employers, arrested, kept to certain areas, or separated from their families. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, though, she organizes workers to help the factionless with food and shelter and job opportunities. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If all the workers stuck together and didn’t give in, the factory had to shut down, and the company owners lost money. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

That includes interviews with the four or five laboratory workers who cared for the animals, which have since been destroyed as a precaution, and any other people who were near the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He washes his own equipment and uniforms after every practice and game, though, and he takes showers that seem like the kind that workers get after there’s a chemical leak at a nuclear power plant. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The packers needed to head off trouble by stirring up conflicts among the workers to weaken the union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, Zeitoun preferred to pay on Sundays or Mondays—because when he paid on Fridays, too many of the workers would disappear all weekend. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I jostled up against a dock- worker and was cuffed away before I could get my hand all the way into his pocket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fine upstanding beasts, willing workers and good comrades, but very stupid. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But the majority of black workers were migrants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Abel had been berating one of his workers in the yard, and my mom had tried to get between them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was a valued worker and a trusted one. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved his son, but his son was not a worker; he was shifty and ungrateful. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was this sound then, thanks to Rue, that sent the orchard workers of District 11 home each night. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Out where she worked as a secretary for a petrochemical plant, many of the blue-collar workers used the word all the time. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interpreters were enlisted to reach out to workers in their own native languages and to translate speeches for them at rallies. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Always to be the only African, except for menial workers, to be regarded at best as a curiosity and at worst as an interloper, is not a congenial experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he did not know then was that the Mexicans had reached out to the Restaurant Opportunities Center, a workers’ rights group. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And he dipped into his own money to pay Cornell project workers to explore the cathedral archives and the national archives of Peru and the municipal archives of Lima. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1917, a lot of workers were heading off to war. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gross-Rosen needed workers, and there were no new shipments of prisoners coming in from the countryside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I barreled forward and answered her unspoken question by telling her that at least some, and maybe all, of the workers at the sanctuary were dead. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

For tens of thousands of workers, particularly those who had risked their lives by fighting to save democracy in the Great War, it was a bitter blow. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“In this room, because it contains more high-caste workers than any other in the Centre. I have told him to meet me here at half-past two.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Elizebeth put it, she and William “became the learners, the students, the teachers, and even the workers all at once.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In a book Farmer had once shown me was a photograph of a defiant road worker; the man lies on the ground with both hands cut off. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She and the workers ate on the patio outside of the administration building. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are janitors and construction workers and garbage collectors; they make fabric and operate trains and drive buses. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I plop them in a heap on the table; Monica sweeps them into a tray like an airport security worker. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

For intellectuals, journalists, and millions of workers, a future without capitalism seemed real and attainable. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was the cost of buying slaves and their upkeep on one hand and paying white workers meager but livable wages on the other. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No one noticed that there was an extra mouse laboring among the workers in the roadway. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My social worker has told me that they are actively looking for a foster parent to take me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She had slipped naira notes to all the salon workers, to the security men outside, to the policemen at the road junction. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They laughed and gobbled up every bit of that food, smiling at the customers and making even the restaurant workers laugh along with them. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was white and he was black; she was rich and he was poor; she was old and he was young; she was the boss and he was the worker. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When accepted, the willing workers might or might not be thanked, and it was of no importance to the pregraduation rites. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because when the workers processed the pineapple, they discarded the cores in a huge pile behind the factory. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure just how or when the idea was first dropped by the Welfare workers that our mother was losing her mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them wore oil field gear and had probably been tipped off by rig workers who’d gone back to the yard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hope they’ve sent us more skilled workers and fewer gentlemen, as I requested,” says President Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the social worker piled the four of us into her car, I knew exactly what was going on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was money in fishing and he wanted the money, he was ambitious, strong, and a zealous worker, but the sea, in the end, made no sense to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pattillo grew up in the thirties, the son of a blacksmith turned railroad worker in a small segregated Louisiana town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Our leaders always look clean and refreshed at the end of the hottest day, because they work in very pleasant environments,” charged Reynolds worker Mabel Jessup. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, it's pretty much her job as a case worker to know stuff about different kinds of syndromes and stuff like that. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But of course there was: if something fell into the drain, the kitchen workers wouldn’t want it to disappear. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were too busy figuring out how to counter Gustavus Swift and his fellow meatpacking company owners, who were relentlessly creating divisions in order to prevent the workers from showing a united front. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But the main thing is to establish the protest and not leave the building until they sign the workers’ list of demands.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the social worker clicked his pen and looked up. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Seattle strike took place when, for many American workers, joining a union was becoming increasingly important. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

You want to be an engineer, a computer programmer, a secretary, a doctor, a lawyer, a caterer, a gardener, a construction worker, or whatever. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most often poor men who came to the New World to make their fortunes, the overseers had not the slightest sympathy for their enslaved workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She told a Treasury official that she wanted to lobby for a law making it illegal to mention government workers by name without their permission. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The protests of the workers this time were based on the lack of sanitary facilities in their living quarters, the nonexistence of medical services, and terrible working conditions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask “What about you and all the rest of the workers?” but I knew the answer, and it made me sad. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His plan was to make chicken sandwiches, wrap them in the pieces of the balloon’s skin, and sell them to office workers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we emerged into the evening gloom to the uproar and bustle of the striking workers, the distance between us had grown even greater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, Bigger, the relief people said you were a very good worker when you were interested in what you were doing. Is that true?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he wipes his face, leans over to retrieve his hat, bows to the astonished audience of menagerie workers, and continues on his way. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It just protects the workers, not the kids.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After a few months at Birkenau, we were told Auschwitz needed workers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Demand for railcars to carry visitors to the exposition had spared the Pullman Works, but by the end of the fair George Pullman too began cutting wages and workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Marina Raskova probably didn’t think of herself as “having it all”; she was a hard worker, but in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, so was everybody else. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the dark, I walk all the way up to Riverside, about ten minutes away, where they run a late bus for the nighttime water-plant workers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I search through card catalogues and scan the shelves, but find nothing about domestic workers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We pass more workers, hanging a sign that reads Santa’s workshop. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Koffi knew they were being reckless, knew that at any moment they could run into more of the temple’s workers or the Sons of the Six, but luck stayed with them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For a second, the only sounds in the room were the muted shouting coming from the rescue workers outside, the chopping sound of a helicopter, and the siding-company commercial playing on the radio station. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I smiled at him, trying to make him remember me not as the boy he used to punch in the face, but as one of his best workers at Bergen-Belsen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

To make ends meet, Mama cooked for twenty farm workers who lived in Tent City. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Young accused Swann of being a traitor to the workers, an opportunist, a collaborator with the police, and an adherent of Trotsky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

People born that year were deep thinkers and hard workers, just as she was. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When in a monkey house, do as the monkey workers do. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rising union man named Samuel Gompers stopped by Burnham’s office to discuss allegations that the exposition discriminated against union workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Cane is heavy, like I say, but I am anxious to prove a good worker. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I talked to his social worker last week. My parents helped me track down her info, and she said that we could email him.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He argued that it would be far more efficient if workers were a few steps from the factory instead of wasting precious time marching the two and a half miles between Emalia and the camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The waiting room was always packed with people, and the person at the front desk never knew when we would be helped or where the social workers were. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The social worker looks exhausted, as if she wouldn’t mind crawling into one of the open beds. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So long as the factory workers let him alone, he was willing to extend the same courtesy to them. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty, Roberto carried the twenty lunches in a box and delivered them, on foot, to the workers who were given half an hour for lunch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The one who tried to make the factory workers kill me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This dynamic had defeated the striking black tobacco workers in Winston-Salem in the 1940s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know I would have ridiculed them when I was young: I would cringe and grow ashamed and angry at those funny tones of my father and his workers, all that Konglish, Spanglish, Jive. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monkey workers had stopped cleaning the cages, because they did not want to go into the monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the digging pits sometimes hit 130°F. Slowly peeling away the geological layers, Howard’s workers revealed that Blackwater Draw had hosted not one, but two ancient societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That day one other office worker, the stenographer, appeared. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A workers’ strike could cut off food supplies, jeopardizing the war effort. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Wage reductions and layoffs stoked unrest among workers nationwide. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One of the seafood workers—a huge man, dressed in an orange apron—throws an entire salmon across the counter, where it lands in another man’s arms with a wet smack. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors, factory workers, lawyers, teachers, students, ministers, defied and went to jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate it when my workers are laid up.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his frequent visits, he could be spotted chatting amiably with workers or engineers, sometimes in the company of less patient companions, such as Groves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To fill the increased demand for meat, Swift needed more workers, but now he had fewer. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When wages were down or workers were laid off during slow seasons, the family was often not sure where the next meal was coming from. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Glad to hear it. I understand your boy here is a good worker. You can come and take his wages at the end of each month.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little said, “George, you been a good worker, as good as any I’ve ever had.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the social worker leaves, Gran and Gramps sit in silence for a minute. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With initial funds from Tom White, and Farmer’s eventual strong support, Jim created a system of community health workers in Carabayllo. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Me? Ha! You must be thinking of that fellow in Kolkata—the miracle worker. You are growling up the wrong bush, my boy, as the English like to say.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

His father, Anthony, had been living on his own since age fourteen, first as a coal miner and boxer, then as a construction worker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

In my innocence, I suspected that the obscene jazz issuing forth from the loudspeakers on the walls of the factory was at the root of the apathy which I was witnessing among the workers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closer to home I would notice the shirdess construction workers, the roofers, the sweating men tarring the street in front of the house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the worker’s shacks,” said another, higher voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as yet deserted, except for a couple of large bins; the first Ministry workers did not usually appear here until at least eight o’clock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Papa had said “they” were midlevel government workers: “Any old idiot can decide your entire fate. That’s the way government works.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Laundry workers existed at the bottom of the war’s great pyramid, invisible and invaluable at the same time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“He has to take his nap,” the worker said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They would often bring a social worker to an eviction. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And the location of the camp, thirty miles southeast of Farmville, meant that she lived in worker housing during the week and got back home only on weekends. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The workers scurried between the bins and the generator or simply stood and watched the thing shake. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before nightfall a worker at the camp warned Papa Andrew that RUF rebels would try to sneak into the camp after dark. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worker replied in a normal tone, very matter-of-fact. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

True, most of my fellow workers are better cushioned than I am; they live with spouses or grown children or they have other jobs in addition to this one. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again music and songs helped the sugar workers to keep up their spirits—to speak to one another in ways their bosses could not understand. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The workers in the underground, the bus drivers who went through Euston would be questioned. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom is oblivious as she thanks the restaurant workers and scoops the pizza boxes into her arms. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The rumor that die tunnel spanning die river would use Negro workers became an announcement Planned, abandoned and replanned for years, this project had finally begun in 1937. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There had been four workers employed in the building, and two of them were now going to be in the hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waitress stalked off, and a black kitchen worker stomped over. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Driven by a sense of urgency, she soon ventured beyond Paramaribo, hiring workers to hack through dense underbrush. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Neither of the two clerical workers he was used to seeing was there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Unions gave workers the power to bargain with employers and improve their lives. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The workers, who marked watch dials with luminous radium paint, customarily licked their brushes to a fine point, ingesting the radioactive substance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even though I did not feel it immediately, I was relieved that the lawsuits were over and that I did not ever have to face the Mosses or any of the workers again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, English workers had brewed their own beer, which they drank along with bread, their other major source of food. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But at night, after the workers left, we had long conversations about the rela-tionship between the Communist Party and the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve explored every nook and cranny of this place, except for a hill at the far end where workers have been repairing a wall. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His brothers were tough hard workers, all of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dull, red light shone on the faces of the workers as they watched their own arrays of little glass dishes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But resistance workers caught in the act of stealing ration cards, working to overthrow the German regime? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She paused by the empty loom and waited until a nearby worker had stopped to reset her shuttle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” Ronneberg said, blood dripping from his hand as he pointed to the night worker, “let’s get that door to the yard unlocked.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a hard worker when I want to be. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He told me he was a construction worker and tonight he was late getting home to his wife and infant son. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louis Swift and other owners of the large industries in dire need of workers gladly joined forces with Hill and Jackson. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The actual workers and patrons appeared rough around the edges, dressed in jeans and T-shirts and, well, loaded up with piercings and tattoos. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, there’s deep political analysis. He’s leading a demonstration for striking sanitation workers, so he must be a Communist.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That evening, white gangs assaulted black stockyard workers as they headed home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The challenge is to plan the work and organize the workers so that it will come out precisely as predicted. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the American worker now faces a much different challenge than that of abuse from greedy owners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw had managed to salvage shovels, pickaxes, and crowbars from the various places for at least a dozen workers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the usual chitchat with the supervising worker, a woman I had not seen before, although this time it had an edgy tone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was a farm worker labor camp owned by Sheehey Strawberry Farms. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I developed the reputation of having a fine memory, but in fact, I was simply a diligent worker. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early for the fans to be there and only workers was going in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other workers were now assembling and a man in a burgundy jacket appeared at his elbow. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping, my little miracle workers, that you would stay with me awhile. I would be honored.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

After workers made gains in the mid-twentieth century, American labor unions lost strength. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Wal-Mart has a number of more impersonal and probably more effective ways of getting its workers to feel like “associates.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The manual workers, The Club, left almost in a body to work in war projects plants. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set aside special days to honor individual states and nations and to fete distinct groups of workers, including cobblers, millers, confectioners, and stenographers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Minerwa factory, says Herr Braun, our director, sweating in his suit while standing on a crate, is a system of rules and regulations, where we, the workers, will be valued. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Thousands, shelter workers say, make their way through Mexico clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Once Mami punched a social worker who was rude to her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The new division of labor meant that a worker only had to be taught how to perform one task. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

However, official records of union people like Fannie killed over decades of worker strikes are spotty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The workers had begun to arrive early that morning, bearing the kettles and plants and equipment, while Jamison was still in Kira’s room describing the events of the day before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were Brooklyn migratory workers following seasonal work from one part of the borough to the other. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The only reason they sponsored our visas was because the government was pressuring them to hire workers with papers. But now everyone’s saying it was all talk.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The night worker put a key in the lock and turned it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Swift & Company worker washing cattle carcasses on a disassembly line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course the proper forum to air workers’ grievances is through the Union. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This action on my part led to a rather loud and defiantly boorish roar of protest from the collective workers, who began to regard me with sullen eves. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he moved away to talk with other workers, I felt rich and important already, just like a business lady must feel after making an especially good deal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a dozen different workers and agencies as they look for someone who will tell them what to do. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He marked the shocks with a bundle of straw laid crossways on top so the workers could easily find them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A worker took me to see Dr. Wolfe, a psychiatrist, who asked the same questions the other doctors had. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

EJI now had a social worker on staff, Maria Morrison, who began working with Walter and his family to find a suitable placement for him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She has to realize how disastrous it would be, to call attention to workers from the crèche pushing around empty baby carriages. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On Friday, July 18, ten thousand packinghouse workers expressed their dissatisfaction by walking off the job. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the shelter workers tell of migrants hit by bullets. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The bald figure released merely stated that the median income of full-time women workers was 59 percent of that for men. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only 2 percent of the workers in the U.S.-led project were hospitalized at any one time, compared with 30 percent for the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Once again Holmes’s method of segregating tasks and firing workers was proving successful. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were also hard workers, one wax child being able to do the work of at least two ordinary children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he thought, one of the workers had become a father or won something in a raffle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somkit crouched in front of the broken Model Nine while the shop workers stood back, scratching their heads. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Congolese workers at the embassy had tampered with the food. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One was a greenhouse worker in Germany who became paralyzed several months after experiencing mild symptoms of poisoning on a few occasions after using parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Manufacturing jobs were transferred by multinational corporations away from American cities to countries that lacked unions, where workers earn a small fraction of what is considered a fair wage in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

During construction the workers must eat, which in turn means that other people must provide their food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

John Kikulski was particularly effective, speaking in Polish and Lithuanian to capture the hearts of the eastern European workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A different worker drove me back to the shelter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miners and acetate silk spinners and steel workers. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the office worker and forced a pleasant tone. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As an army of workers cleared the stage, unhooking power cords, removing instruments and equipment, Armpit and Ginny were unsure of what they were supposed to do or where they were supposed to go. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She would walk to Skid Row and stand in line with the hobos, the winos, the junkies, and the Mexicans until the farm buses came and the farmers picked out the workers they wanted. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two workers seemed to have even more bottled up inside them, their worries of money and family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t the water that the workers had been piping into the borehole. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when outer walls are to be finished, thatched, the size must change, and as though given new orders by telephone, all the workers shift the search to the new twigs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Architect, utility worker, maid: heart attack is the great leveler, and in those first fearful moments, three New Yorkers with little in common faced a single common threat. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I bet the bakery worker was the same person who made the Beauty and the Beast programs. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was baffled, initially, by what seemed like a certain lack of get-up-and-go on the part of my fellow workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Federal troops put down the strike in many cities, leading to more violence and several workers’ deaths. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The workers' leader held up the other end. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Silly had told me that one of the pro-union workers had got beaten up one night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the column turned into the office park, which by that time was filling up with workers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael was an aid worker from a country called Ireland. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The social worker rounded us up and sat us down on the steps in front of Shanon’s house. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The pretty face grew sharp with tension, as the social worker leaned forward. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

All the workers were colored and the foreman for each crew was white. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They invaded the camp, moving through tents, searching for undocumented workers who ran into the wilderness behind the camp, trying to escape. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s bringing water to the workers holed up behind the locked fence of Huntington Beach power plant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one subsection, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On May 11, 1894, two thousand Pullman workers went on strike with the support of Debs’s American Railway Union. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I knew what was expected of me and I was a good worker. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes sir. Mr. Lew, this is Mr. Reilly. He’s very efficient. A whiz. As a matter of fact, he’s made it possible for us to do away with several other workers.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, long ago, unions had a place in American society, but they “no longer have much to offer workers,” which is why people are leaving them “by the droves.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the rubble piles where buildings used to be, in the windows of the shops or watching the factory workers—the factories were all German now—go to and from their shifts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The other people on the bus are mostly workers on their way home. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jelliman brought in several young workers from Sekhukhuneland, and the place soon appeared to be like any other smallholding in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis was an excellent leather- maker and artisan type and he quickly became Aunt Mary’s best worker. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you didn’t mean any harm, miss,” the park worker said. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And I had read reports of these officers choking mechanics, shooting construction workers, slamming suspects through the glass doors of shopping malls. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When I could, I tried to highlight the efforts of relief workers, educators, or community volunteers—anyone who gave more when things got rough. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had recently completed her studies at the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in Johannesburg and was working as the first black female social worker at Baragwanath Hospital. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two workers, a young man in a nurturer's uniform and a volunteer, a girl of ten or so, were tidying things. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to remind cubicle workers to stand and stretch every hour, but it sounded like an ergonomic torture device. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He fulfilled this obligation by moving to Chicago, where he became an “employment specialist,” placing black workers in a variety of jobs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men took a drink from the water jug Jethro had brought up to the workers, and handing it back, he rumpled the boy’s hair with rough affection. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I was afraid of sounding like a social worker, I have come out just sounding like a fool. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the Nazis said they were moving us to Sachsenhausen because the camp needed workers, none of us believed them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Construction began July 9; workers began applying the final coat of staff in October. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, at the morning meal, one of the workers would recount an amusing dream. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is no accident that the non-union workers in these factories receive little more consideration than the animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“There are technical problems,” the adoption worker admitted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a ticket booth at this station, so there was no MTA worker who might care too much about his job. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

True invisibility was impossible, of course: this was mental magic, a kind of fiercely held modesty that could make the spell worker not invisible but simply unnoticed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I was having was a cup of the free dishwater coffee available to all the warehouse workers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were fixed on the emergency workers climbing the steps to the entrance below—getting ready to come through the front doors. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Reta watched the workers with a stern eye and a quick word for anything that wasn’t being done to her satisfaction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d already told his workers and his foremen to leave, to be with their families, to get a head start on the traffic. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They agreed to nearly double the workers’ wages and shorten the workday. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A single Norwegian worker sat at a desk, writing in a book. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those workers who wanted to join the strike were welcomed into the union. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He said he and the other rescue workers would head downstream with the currents toward the bay, the most likely course the kayak had taken. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The social worker is back on duty again, too. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a short film that follows a middle-aged postal worker on her first trip to Paris. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Sugar became a food, a necessity, and the foundation of the diet for England’s poorest workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We pass all these station workers in the hallway, and they stare and whisper as Hype makes another “joke” over the speakers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rather than fleeing the scene, he decided to stay with his workers in spite of the danger, cooling the plant using seawater. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some employers go further; instead of relying on the informal “money taboo” to keep workers from discussing and comparing wages, they specifically enjoin workers from doing so. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made sure to switch out my flat worker’s cap for my yarmulke before I passed through the solid oak doors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the sight of the new workers, the remaining strikers began clamoring in protest and grouping forward. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The worst violence took place at dusk, when the city’s thousands of black factory workers were attacked as they walked home from work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The social worker pulls over two chairs, setting them up at the foot of my bed. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the Pullman Company’s “Ideal of Industry” exhibit, with its detailed model of Pullman’s company town, which the company extolled as a workers’ paradise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Luma wasn’t a social worker, and she had no background in dealing with such intense trauma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

One was the social worker I had told about the Lost Girls, and another was the woman who interviewed us about coming to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the digging and construction was done by workers using shovels, buckets, and bare hands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Bedrock lay 125 feet below grade, too deep for workers to reach with any degree of economy or safety using the construction methods available in the 1880s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The black workers at Sparrows Point made about eighty cents an hour at most, usually less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that this grocer refuses to hire Negro workers? Don’t spend money where your people aren’t respected and can’t earn a living,” she says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No official body count, no reliable numbers of physical assaults, and no definitive records of worker jailings without due process truly document the violence of the struggle for workers’ rights. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, a hard worker, just like your father,” said another, patting her shoulder. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I hear that my favorite worker saved the day!” he said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad says some of his workers saw her. And now they refuse to step foot in that part of the forest.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s in a cotton-planting frenzy, had to hire ten extra field workers to till and drive tractors to get the seed in the ground. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The workers seemed rather concerned and helped me up most politely, smiling in the friendliest fashion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken on even more importance in Durham’s black community when Howard Fuller left to take a job organizing union workers in Greensboro, eventually serving as chairman of UOCI. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Loaded with workers who did not own cars, the pickup sluggishly pulled out, followed by the caravan of old battered cars and trucks. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Half of them were local workers; Peru has so many ruins from so many cultures that in many small towns archaeological labor is a flourishing blue-collar trade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four of the male factory workers were embracing Ignatius around the Smith field hams that were his thighs and, with considerable effort, were lifting him onto one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat is turned off as soon as the workers leave at five. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Pullman’s friends cautioned that he was being pigheaded and had underestimated the anger of his workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To the side, the workers were digging a shallow pit. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She admired the fact that she was a Enrique’s Journey hard worker and a fighter, a girl who thrived when her own twin died a month after birth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The bearded aquarium worker had been replaced by a woman with a blonde ponytail. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Up until his death Schindler kept in touch with some of his former workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When I began working at the institute, I recalled my adolescent dream of wanting to be a medical research worker. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some workers left, thinking that by working under the Zeitoun Painting rainbow they would be presumed to be gay, that somehow the company managed to employ only gay painters. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The men dove away from the road as two buses rounded a curve and sped past, carrying night-shift workers to Vemork. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, his misgivings proved correct, because his father was callous and cruel to the workers, forcing them to labor under harsh conditions from morning to night. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After two days of labor, workers and students were halfway through clearing off the top platform and the staircases leading to it; the layout of the structure was visible enough to map. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the elevator, the social worker attempts to prepare my grandparents for the sight of me, explaining the extent of my external injuries, which look bad, but are treatable. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What do you really need to know in order to get by as a computer engineer, an insurance agent, a history teacher or a factory worker? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few workers in neon vests ambled around the area. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Shin’s mother again fell to her knees at the meeting, as forty of her fellow farm workers followed the bowijidoworis lead and berated her for failing to fill her work quota. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Before 1919 was over, in an unprecedented demonstration of labor unrest, there would be thirty-six hundred work stoppages involving four million workers or one-fifth of the nation’s labor force. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Their workers were setting down tools and leaving work behind. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had returned to his own house to wait, passing as he did the workers still preparing to build a wall surrounding Village. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the early days, mill owners greeted workers by their first name each morning, inquiring about the health of children, who might also be known by name. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In front of us, the line splits in two as a large group of ex-soldiers, government workers, and former politicians walk over to the table to register for work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a hospital not far from there, Jarvis Purdy, the monkey worker who had had a heart attack, rested comfortably, his condition stable. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the past few months I’ve tried asking subtle questions of other lab workers, and of Dad’s old friends, and searching online. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him about the generations of workers who fought and sometimes died for the ten-hour day and then the eight, although this is very much on my mind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after V-J Day, the Norfolk Journal and Guide reported layoffs of 1,500 Newport News shipyard workers and a “decrease for women workers, both white and colored.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A blacksmith made all the nails for the door and a master metal worker made the bolts and locks and hinges. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mollie saw workers—tool dressers, rope chokers, mule peelers, gang pushers—toiling furiously. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now, looking around in the Hatchery cafeteria, Claire was aware that all the other workers took a pill every morning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It also seemed strange that not even the best workers could reproduce her results. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then he was the only Dane working with phage and so was quite pleased that I and Gunther Stent, a phage worker from Delbriick’s lab, had come to do research with Herman. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Now they were down to what Dad called a “skeleton crew” that made either brown or gray slacks for office workers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With an aluminum factory, coal mines, and a large power plant, the town was perhaps accustomed to night-shift workers walking the streets at all hours. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

However, this time line shows valiant efforts by union workers that were crushed by industrial corporations with the backing of local, state, and/or the federal government. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The Ministry workers beside them fell silent, their eyes downcast; Harry could feel fear rippling through them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some of the workers would leave their sacks at the Store to be picked up the following morning, but a few had to take them home for repairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each group received free treatment, but one received other services as well, including regular visits from community health workers and small monthly cash allowances for food, child care, and transportation to Zanmi Lasante. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A lot of the workers were from the States and one of the perks of the job was that they were given hotel rooms to live in. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

No reason for an assembly line, for workers. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Tutors also have rather a hard time of it there, as I know to my sorrow. There’s no place like America for us workers, Miss Margaret.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted another group of workers and attempted to blend into their ranks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When it became clear that the owners had no intention of doing so, workers began organizing strikes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The reasons for that are complicated, and Tony gave them flesh and blood by befriending some Mexican kitchen workers at a restaurant owned by an earlier, successful immigrant from Greece. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She considered him the most handsome man that she had ever been with, the best dancer, the hardest worker. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There have been acts of protest since the start of the occupation—an organized worker strike that was squashed quickly and left dead bodies in the streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Probably some of the people who live in those houses will be Government workers,” Mother said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I head down to the shuttle pad for workers who have to be taken up to the hovering homes. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A hard worker himself, he believed that “a life of mental toil—plus having to get up in the morning every day to face new and exciting problems—keeps one young.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I know that the social worker warned Gran and Gramps not to upset me, but Gramps’s recognition, and the permission he just offered me—it feels like a gift. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a smattering of education was considered a good thing for workers, some mills offered classes at night at no charge. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All factories,” said Grandpa Joe, “have workers streaming in and out of the gates in the mornings and evenings—except Wonka’s! Have you ever seen a single person going into that place—or coming out?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Auntie Eliza’s husband worked out in the fields, and no one talked bad about the field workers when she was around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The sugar workers listened and understood: Smith was speaking not about the Bible, but about the present. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The order taker is in a call center in Colorado Springs, more than 900 miles, or 1,450 kilometers, away, connected to the customer and to the workers preparing the food by high-speed data lines. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s been a lot of rumors that all government workers and their families are being arrested.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sharp-eyed workers noticed her quick stares and retaliated with their own peculiar brand of hazing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can arrange regular visitations for you and them at the county offices,” the worker replied. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The marchers that day were party workers, students and the laborers themselves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva did not know if any of the other aid workers would take the time to teach him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all the members of the force were earning less than half of what many workers had been paid for their labor in the war factories. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Every worker is caught up in the sweep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

These points had been carefully plotted on maps by mail carriers, the workers who knew the city best. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Until the end of dinner, at least. Mr. Katz refuses to concede to the workers’ demands, so I suspect the strike will continue through tomorrow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of all the workers at Paradise Pickles, he was the only card-holding member of the Party, and that gave Comrade Pillai an ally he would rather have done without. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From childhood on he was a hard worker, if anyone would tell him what to work at, and once told he was indefatigable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later I learned a truly skilled worker easily would have produced twice that number. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“In addition, two members of the custodial staff and one of the kitchen workers will not be returning,” Father Mul- rooney said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The only way to fight sugar masters, it seemed, was for the workers to be harder, tougher, and more willing to accept bloodshed than the owners. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After my first few days the food service worker who had been delivering the special hospital meals took pity on me bouncing off my yellow walls like a cricket trapped in a box. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It would have to be given by a worker...or spirit.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We stayed indoors telling ghost stories we had heard from other migrant workers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The worker, putting away the insemination equipment, seemed a little rushed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was a hard worker and a quick study. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The base people will train us to be hard workers and teach us to have pride in our country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the three fools found the communal kitchen, whose main job was to make lunch for workers in the slaughterhouse, everybody had gone home but one woman who had been waiting for them impatiently. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

To augment the small income from the service station, C.P. got a job as an unskilled maintenance worker at Duke University. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She's a social worker, and all that really means is that she takes care of mentally sick people. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The masthead listed all the workers on the paper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The outside of the Berg was littered with various boxy protrusions and handles for maintenance workers. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I could hear the workers somewhere inside that square of buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You are prepared to lose your identity and live out the rest of your life as a waiter or a dock worker?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Social workers, businesswomen, and librarians were to wear blue; artists, actresses, and musicians were to wear rose; and so forth; so that the marchers would form a kaleidoscope of color and professions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

With a steel axe, workers could topple the same tree in less than three hours. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they would block off a street, round up healthy Jewish workers, and send them deep into Germany as slave labor. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He also mentioned counseling a guard who had put his finger on a sad truth that priests seem to understand better than doctors or social workers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want y’all to head over to the rice fields and take this here water to the workers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Maryland National Guard fought its way through striking railroad workers in Baltimore on July 20. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

One of the many reasons for this decline is the replacement of workers through the use of robots and other forms of automation that require fewer workers, even those with advanced skills. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The tannery stood, its bricks and cement had held it together despite the raging winds; but the workers’ huts, of more flimsy construction, had been demolished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls also worked as substitute labor so that female factory workers could take a four-week vacation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The sap oozes out and hardens overnight. In the morning the workers scrape it off.They can collect from the same plant four or five times.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the far corner is the all-night Korean deli; two workers, a Korean and a Hispanic, are sitting on crates and smoking cigarettes outside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got too much education. If we hired you, you might cause trouble among our obedient workers. We don’t want a mutiny; this is a peaceful country.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the general explained, this narrowed the targets to cities hosting large munitions plants surrounded by worker housing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see if I can get you in to see her in a little while,” the social worker says. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warburg’s ideas received confirmation in 1953 when other workers were able to turn normal cells into cancer cells merely by depriving them of oxygen intermittently over long periods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear scowled to see the misshapen masses of clay in his cart, so different from the neat rectangles of the other workers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Even the ovens seemed things of beauty, and every worker in the shop a skilled and witty fellow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of the disaster, hundreds of rescue workers poured into the North End from everywhere in the area. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flashlight beam bounced down the hall: one of the workers making the rounds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Working conditions did not substantially improve, but the company agreed to re-hire union workers and raise wages. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I tell him the factories aren’t open on Sunday, so dressing as workers doesn’t make sense. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the Rouge, workers collapsed from heat and fatigue, while on Hurlbut my grandmother did a double shift. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With all other sources of workers exhausted, Swift and his fellow packers turned their gaze to the blacks of the South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Today, opponents debate the need for a minimum wage and workers’ right to organize. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Over the years the Zebra Room had absorbed the exhalations of its auto worker patrons. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The front page of the Carolina Times had a story about a Negro college football coach who’d led his team to victory, and another about unfair treatment of colored workers in Raleigh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After several people died in skirmishes, nine workers among them, state militia arrived, armed with Winchester rifles and Gatling machine guns. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Clarkston was originally settled by yeoman farmers and railroad workers in the years after the Civil War. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The head of the entire Hatchery operation, Dimitri was an upper-level worker; he was older, and had studied science intensively. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the workers—a husky man named Luis—gave Maribel his hat when he saw that she didn’t have one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We were standing in the touch tank room, listening to a bearded aquarium worker speak into a microphone. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It doesn't matter, though, because the carnival worker tells me you have to pop three balloons to win anything. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Unlike poor black workers such as Ann Atwater, wealthy and middle-class blacks saw little to gain and everything to lose from joining Du Bois. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The workers watched with interest as the lifters tottered back and forth under their burden. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glum faces were everywhere throughout the Glade, and most of the workers had abandoned their daily jobs. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was a good worker and seemed like if the mill needed anybody, they kept me on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's when she says that the social worker could be back in an hour with a search warrant to tear the house apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tailor shop at Plaszów, a nearby labor camp, needed more workers, we were told. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She is the guidance counselor/social worker/lover of poetry who has been our advisor since my freshman year. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It was the site of a factory building, recently constructed, and none of the workers knew what had become of the family whose house had burned down on that spot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should he have refused when other electrical agencies requested sanctuary for their workers? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And just like what Mong said to the store worker earlier, I had nothing left to lose. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The men are in workers’ clothes, not fancy establishment garb. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The city’s newspapers loved to crow about the startling increase in the number of workers employed by Chicago’s industries, especially meat-packing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I startle when I hear the social worker say my name. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers stopped picketing, but did not go back to work. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Though many mothers expect the separations to be short, typically they last six to eight years, says Analuisa Espinoza, a Los Angeles Unified School District social worker who specializes in immigrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One Mexican-American friend of my mother’s, who regarded it a special blessing that she had a measure of English blood, spoke disparagingly of her husband, a construction worker, for being so dark. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was reading one such letter to a migrant worker named Phineas, when I was overcome with feelings and started crying. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, a worker cut a strip off the edge, divided it into squares, and put each through a series of rigorous tests. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened silently to the charges: inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country without valid travel documents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a small sum, we had been allowed to watch from afar as hundreds of workers crawled ant-like over the lumber skeletons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As a social worker, I kept current yearbooks from all the buildings in my district. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As I gathered my thoughts, a summit worker scurried onstage and handed Charlie a bottle of water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Camp workers teach us English mornings and afternoons. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But companies whipped up prejudice against unions, painting workers as communists, and strikers lost public support. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Gompers was calling for fundamental change in the relationship between workers and their overseers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The workers installed three sets of parallel railroad tracks along the length of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“That kid’s my best worker,” Winky confided loudly to the man sitting next to him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been born a nobody, a worker ant in the hive of the New South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After collective bargaining failed, Carnegie shut down its Homestead plant and locked out the union workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The prisoners in the camps would be reassigned from now on as each camp needed workers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Raleigh had helped a few of the Zeitouns’ workers who had legal issues to straighten out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I guessed they were night workers who hadn’t gone to bed yet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The aid workers came from many different countries, but they usually spoke English to each other. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He greeted the poll workers, picked up his ballot, and shook hands with anyone he encountered, appearing relaxed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The leader of the workers brought out a big sign made of blue canvas. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said I was a good worker and school could wait. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it ended, the superintendent ordered each worker to slap Kang and his girlfriend in the face before leaving the room. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The workers, we discovered, were being searched on their way back into the ghetto, and any extra food was being confiscated. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom thought about that and replied, “Maybe you’re right. Maybe this is some kind of early development. Maybe the owners of the packing plant built those houses for their workers.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there had been no money for college, so he found a job as a utility worker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She walked down the street talking to tourists, sanitation workers, and homeless people, waving her cane at every person she passed, saying, “Hi there, how y’all doin?” again and again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And it seems to be completely abandoned, with no sign of any workers or performers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were never any men, just tired-looking women, some with their children, as if bringing children there would make the social workers talk to them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I ducked under a worker’s desk to stall the departure. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The workers who knew him well were unsurprised, while the newer ones would often be startled, thinking his behavior a bizarre sort of motivational method. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Barack, for his part, had spent plenty of time listening to laid-off factory workers, young military veterans trying to manage lifelong disabilities, mothers fed up with sending their kids to poorly functioning schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If a judge were to mandate the dissolution of the company, its factories would remain standing and its workers, accountants, managers and shareholders would continue to live—but Peugeot SA would immediately vanish. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would he go through the complexities of transferring us when he could easily get other Jewish workers for free in his new location? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He built brick houses for his workers, hired a teacher for the school, and raised the standard of living of everyone on his lands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d cook and clean all day at the diner on Third Avenue for fishermen, railroad workers, and the occasional crew of navy men. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We had been with our new family for two months when, one day, our adoption social worker called Mama with a problem. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many workers were transient, intending only to spend a few months in the country before returning to their families. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He dodged in and out among the homebound workers, shouting greetings to Kai the baker’s boy and a few other urchins he knew. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The workers carried oversized wrenches, cranks, and other tools, and were using them to make adjustments on some unseen apparatus beneath the water’s surface. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The small businessmen, government workers, and artisans who lived here could not afford the mansions of the Refined, but most of their homes were equipped with indoor plumbing, electric lights, and gas for cooking. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mama was slung over his shoulder like the jute sacks of rice his factory workers bought in bulk at the Seme Border. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Traveling the country for two years, Fannie saw workers everywhere had the same troubles: long hours, low pay, and dangerous conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Jobs were hard to come by, limited at least somewhat by the fact that managers at some of the big factories in Chicago regularly hired European immigrants over African American workers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Probably some social worker type of person had come up with this program called “O.L.D. Friend” for juvenile offenders. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The discipline wand, in the hand of the Childcare worker, whistled as it came down across Asher’s hands. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They certainly were good hard workers—except when Dorcas tried too hard to be elegant. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of other agricultural workers were told to move to cities to work in factories. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Louis Swift and the other packers pressed hard to keep the workers from coming together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Schindler was forced to agree, but ironically, that change was what saved our lives near the end of the war when Schindler argued that his "expert" workers had to be moved to Brünnlitz. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Keep your hands flat,” said the aquarium worker to no one in particular—which was fine, because nobody was listening to him anyway. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In spring, along with the daffodils, crowds on the ferry, and workers raking the beaches, comes the ritual of real estate gossip. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Those tags guaranteed that the workers who made those garments were treated better. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He said that the two workers were kind enough to stick around and make sure we all ate and that we needed to return the kindness. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Guards did not ask Shin to snitch on fellow workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Two American Red Cross workers came around and passed out candy and stuff. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps no organization on earth, save the Communist party, possessed so detailed a knowledge of how workers lived, for its sources of information stemmed directly from the workers themselves. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“He said Panchito is a good worker,” Mamá responded, coming to my rescue. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Merchants, sailors, artisans, government workers, and soldiers lived crowded together. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The hospital social worker told me that they would arrange home health and hospice care, which was sad but dramatically better than what he feared when he was on Alabama's death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Like Teddy, he lived nearby because his mom was a domestic worker. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Soon, nearly half a million workers joined the strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

At various times Dad had been a meat worker, a cane cutter, a forklift driver, and a lawn-mower man. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Among those reforms was the token hiring of black workers in low-level white-collar jobs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Come forth, you miracle workers,” said El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured he was one of the workers from another agency and forgot about him the minute we left the adoption fair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

While the number of workers was dropping, the war was creating a huge new market for industrial products. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The army was mutinous; the factory workers galled; inflation ran amok. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the presence of so many workers, there was a maddening lack of noise and bustle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t his social worker’s car, but maybe she’d gotten a new one? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“She also withdrew the papers once before,” the worker replied, “and she is only related to your son.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On the islands, this group of workers was called “the hogmeat gang.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was the tiniest worker in the factory. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Night Zoo’s workers were of the Gedezi People like her, which meant the show would go on this evening, but Sahel’s absence would be felt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone from taxi drivers to sanitation workers had been outfitted in some kind of smart new uniform. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The trade union movement as a whole buckled under fierce right-wing attacks and quickly abandoned black workers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Indenture was a step better than slavery, but masters did their best to intimidate workers to keep wages low and silence critics. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Old Hirsch will shave his beard, and they will both dress as workers, like Max did. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They have led to illness and death of workers in electrical industries; and more recently, in agriculture, they have been considered a cause of a mysterious and usually fatal disease of cattle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sugar work in Hawaii brought the same scene as took place in the Caribbean —the foreman on his horse, the gangs of workers harvesting the cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thousands could dwell there, workers, servants, slaves, and warriors with great store of arms; wolves were fed and stabled in deep dens beneath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Highly educated workers benefited from the pace of technological change and the increased use of computer-based technologies, but blue-collar workers often found themselves displaced in the sudden transition from an industrial to a service economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One man said he was a sanitation worker from Houston. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Now and then a mall worker would try to approach him with a tidbit. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The ten prisoners surrounded him, clinging to his clothes: “Save us! You promised . . . We want to go to the depot, we are strong enough to work. We are good workers. We can ... we want. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That the army hemmed in and machine-gunned three thousand workers and that their bodies were carried off to be thrown into the sea on a train with two hundred cars.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Company owners seemed to be on the lookout for a chance to challenge and ultimately break the garment workers’ union. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The counter workers in restaurants weren’t friendly local folk happy to chat, but hostile teenagers who wished they had better jobs or weary older people waiting for their shifts to end. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's the most implausible aspect of the whole story, as there's no way the bells of France would allow a foreign worker to fly in and take their jobs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then she chuckled, watching one of the workers set down a covered pot and turn his face away with a grimace of disgust. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When their backs were turned, I held my breath and sneaked over to the other group, the one made up of stronger workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Pedrito had put some cane chairs and hammocks under a thatched roof, a place for workers to rest or take a siesta during the hot pan of the day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will be on strike tomorrow with my people and fellow workers!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incensed immigrant workers lashed out at blacks with racial taunts. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And in the late 1800s, the authorities began to make a new offer to Indian workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But most of the workers were used in the sorting sheds, stacking the clothing and suitcases and possessions stolen from the prisoners, dividing them into piles to be sent back to Germany. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just didn’t...I thought it was the social worker.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was dragged away and never returned, and suddenly I understood why the Plaszów tailor shop needed new workers, and always would. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next thing we knew, vuvv tech was replacing workers all over the world. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While I have also improved my reputation as a worker, because she is weak, Chou has been taken out of the garden and demoted to a cook. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless it was your worker’s day, you were unlikely to taste the special treat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The workers are frozen, staring at the entrance with widened eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She listened, not hearing the workers below or Sam Gribley, who was creeping along the girder to her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two tables at the very back of the room were reserved, mainly for kitchen workers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother directed her question to the worker who was standing in the doorway. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There are darkened circles in the yellow fabric under her arms like she’s a construction worker. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Truly, I don’t know,” the social worker responds. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two workers with grease on their faces pass us, moving on up the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When it was time for my mother to leave, we hugged so tightly, the worker had to pry me from her neck. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They carried protest signs and tried to convince the replacement workers not to take their jobs. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The other workers had always been so unconcerned, so slipshod. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes us many hours before we reach the registration table and give the workers all the necessary information. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took pictures of the jungle gym at the local park, of streetlights at night, of city workers chopping down an oak that had been struck by lightning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The message was clear: You were brought to Natal only as a guest worker; you have no right to stay. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Brown was a union worker and a former Klan official who had changed his ways and offered to infiltrate the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“If you remember me,” I said, my voice cracking, “then you know I’m a good worker.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was that village where the emperor collected his latest workers.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I remember the social worker telling my grandparents and Aunt Diane that this was a positive step. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these meager beginnings he built the giant Westing Paper Products Corporation and founded the city of Westingtown to house his thousands of workers and their families. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo, Tock, and the Humbug watched eagerly as the rest of the workers put down their tools and gathered around the big pot to help themselves. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

By now I was accustomed to all sorts of workers coming to visit us in our various foster homes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed Civil Rights workers’ lives were worthless— black or white—when they stood up for black people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She traveled from city to city, telling people about the low wages and unhealthy working conditions at Marx & Haas, and asking them to support the striking garment workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A wave of anxiety and uneasiness broke over the workers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, Granddaddy was a city maintenance worker for forty years. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the hazy dawn hours of February 9, four thousand police and army troops cordoned off the township while workers razed empty houses and government trucks began moving families from So- phiatown to Meadowlands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its hundreds of Indians, soldiers, and workers slept in tents. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She would fix her hair, cover it with a flimsy net, put on a clean white cannery worker’s dress, and stick a brightly colored handkerchief in the lapel pocket. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The foremen would sometimes beat him and other workers who performed poorly, but not seriously and never to death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The African diplomats were taken on tours of the North Carolina Mutual offices, where they were shown row after row of black workers in starched white collars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy King, who was one of the hardest workers of all of us, was shaking his head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If W.P.A. workers leaned on their shovels, the writers leaned on their pens. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louis Swift’s goal was to keep black and white workers separated. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I raced down to find Phiri nose to nose with another worker named James. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

On the streets of Mafikeng, battles broke out between the homeland police and striking workers and students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sources inside the Vemork plant—Norwegian workers who fed information to the resistance network— reported that the Germans were furiously rebuilding the equipment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so while Lenore huddled with other employees filing police reports and requesting interviews with hospital workers, Dell excused himself and accessed the school district website. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I still took pride in being a good worker, but it was almost like I could do that anywhere else. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that Shin knew about his brother was that he was not a hard worker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then a group of three chemical plant workers developed acute poisoning from exposure to other insecticides of this group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They may exhort potential customers to “Compare Our Prices! ” but they’re not eager to have workers do the same with wages. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down to the hairnets and surly looks from the cafeteria workers.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A newspaper editor learned this lesson when he dared to criticize the Dukes’ harsh treatment of workers—including the practice of whipping children in the mill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only Elizabeth stayed on in Little Rock, where she is a social worker. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The workers, the miners—they did this,” whispered the man who’d told me the name of the mine before. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And they say he was kind to his workers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They forced the workers to back down and sidelined the union in Western Pennsylvania for two generations. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In Brazil, when word came that the harvest was about to begin, a priest came to bless the mill—and the workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Walking confidently into the hold, I pass bustling workers who don’t give me a second glance. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boss would encourage the workers and laugh and joke with them. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, on his narrow hotel bed, he thought sleepily about pre-empting Comrade Pillai by organizing his workers into a sort of private labor union. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two go up, and one stays down with the social worker. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his workers on strike, Swift was preparing to bring in outsiders to take their place and to provide the strikebreakers with temporary sleeping quarters inside the Stock Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But there were tensions with the other workers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed August 13, construction workers toiled day and night to replace the barbed wire with a permanent wall. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of my workers swears the head cook can turn himself into a monkey and steal things from the guest rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria workers remind me of my abuela, my mom’s mom. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There is another way that low-income workers differ from “economic man.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have led corrupt lives and must be trained to be productive workers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While agricultural workers starved in Ukraine, record numbers of laborers produced factory goods. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He could exploit Polish workers at low wages and Jews for none at all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It caused a great deal of resentment among the other Touchable factory workers because, according to them, Paravans were not meant to be carpenters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a good idea to play with this one,” a uniformed female worker said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We ran down the hillside through the terraces, past screaming spa workers and pirates ransacking the resort. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They have long hair, long skirts, jeans and overalls, earrings, caps like construction workers’, lavender shawls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The workers stepped around in circles for a few seconds as if they had found themselves unexpectedly in an unfamiliar place. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the way we all stood with our lawyers and the social worker in front of the judge told me this was a very important day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The worker shortage caused by the war left the shapeup empty and laborers in high demand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wove through the crowd of workers to a door marked “Stairway” and opened it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought that such a melange of black and white, male and female, blue-collar and white-collar workers, those who worked with their hands and those who worked with numbers, was actually possible? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Polish newspaper accused the bosses of orchestrating the fires to further racial divisions among the workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The worker gestures downward with his thumb to signal the crane operator to continue slowly lowering the granite panel. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Cartwright Farm had a store for its workers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted at a worker that was about to grab on to a crate. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concourse was bustling with workers from the floors above who’d come down for a break, while new waves of commuters poured off the trains from the level below. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had seen his workers, most of whom were uninsured and afraid to register at a hospital, ignore their injuries. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He knew that all the other Touchable workers in the factory resented Velutha for ancient reasons of their own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Kaztauskis’s fellow workers had a different way of looking at it: “They get all the blood out of those cattle and all the work out of us men.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What if a worker had fallen in and was drowning, being smothered by the disgusting, bitter goo? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z