| 单词 | labor |
| 例句 | And he went on and out to his fields and into the high sun of noon, and he was spent as with the labor of a whole day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This made sense in many ways: the labor of working a field that required a lot of plowing was shared, as was the harvest from a fertile field. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Lillian listened to his labored exhalations as he struggled with the last ten pushups and remembered the years when Bull could do a hundred with ease. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We had lived there in barracks eight months out of the year, from January through August, ever since Tent City, the farm labor camp, had been torn down. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At once they came, waves of them, one after another, and they labored separating and dividing, until what had been a confused mass lay all ordered, every seed with its kind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Carey told of a pregnant woman who went into labor even while “her husband and two children lay dead in the same room with her.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Fact: Mom and Dad said that your labor was fine and the baby is fine and everything is fine blah blah blah. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The growing demand for labor on plantations was met through slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When poor single mothers had the option of remaining out of the labor force on welfare, the middle and upper middle class tended to view them with a certain impatience, if not disgust. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking Beetle gave her cheap labor and an apprentice too stupid and scared to be any competition. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even those few older slaves who could no longer labor with cane, no matter how maimed or injured, had to repair tools or nurse the newly wounded. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And then she talked again of all that she had, through great industry, through unceasing labor, acquired in the long journey from grinding poverty. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z 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 The process will take some time, Dr. Ashley tells her; given that this is her first pregnancy, labor can take twenty-four hours, sometimes more. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z About midnight—when the night is equal, as the elders say—my mom started to go into labor. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “He said to convey his condolences, and tell you he was sorry not to stay. Miss Herma is having a bad labor.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He was holding a gigantic ice-cream cone that he had received for his labors; He casually pulled the door shut before making his way toward Prosper and Hornet. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They were both shivering slightly from the frosty air and wheezing from the labor of their uphill rush. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Landowners’ fields were emptied by death, forcing them either to work peasants harder or pay more to attract new labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Disturbed by the man’s alarum, we looked up from our labor and found a detachment of Redcoats running in formation for the gates. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z So he hadn’t been pouting after all; he’d been resting up and planning for his labors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Two men, who also sharpened the spears, did this work, laboring far into the night by the light of seaweed fires. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You saw your father. He is being remolded through labor. We have evidence that he has committed a serious counterrevolutionary crime.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, the man wore an honorable legend: After he hired himself out from his master for weekend labor, he had purchased the freedom of his wife, then his children, and finally himself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The older children were “hired out” by the master, Edward Brodas, to farmers who needed slave labor but who could not afford to buy slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore his cuffed, baggy work khakis and a short-sleeved white shirt, and labored at the center of a rising red cloud of dust like a crew-cut genie who’d just appeared there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, seated at a crude table, with a kerosene lamp spluttering at my elbow, I would fill out insurance applications, and a sharecropper family, fresh from laboring in the fields, would stand and gape. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone said to a friend, “You sure was a long time delivering that baby. How long was you in labor?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The tides had almost buried the canoe, and I labored many days to dig it out of the sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In what had been organized labor’s first test of how much power it would yield in the wake of World War I, it had come up woefully short. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Once I told her I had, she immediately leaped into a passionate speech about the merits of the labor movement, the brutality of the Pinkerton Agency, and the need for sudden, even violent change. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “You said there could be trouble if someone goes into labor and Grandma isn’t home to take the call. I thought, He’s right, we need a phone! Silly me! Did I misunderstand?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The local coroner held that the death had resulted “from disease, the fatal termination of which was hastened by flogging, labor, and general harsh treatment, imposed by .. . Elam Lynds. ...” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For his labors, Bobby was awarded a $7,500 prize plus an honorarium of $3,000 from the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The fortifications at Jericho were an enterprise of this kind, requiring sustained and specialized labor over a long period. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone without a work card will be taken to a labor camp.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A car passed along the road outside, laboring in the sand, died away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The drive to Villiers cheered me considerably, and I was laboring under a false sense of security when I entered the small courthouse on the morning of the third of September. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Some cries were long and full of panic and the labor of running, others were cut off almost as soon as they began. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z First, it involves seasonally pulsed inputs of labor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 Part of the new production method’s genius was its division of labor into unskilled tasks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z One honest employer confirmed the truth in these worries: blacks were hired “solely on account of the shortage of labor....As soon as the situation clears itself no more colored help will be employed.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One twist—one little twist and the engine caught and labored and faltered and caught again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at night, the wrecks glowed with work, people laboring by torchlight as they continued the steady job of disassembly. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Private industries throughout the country made millions of dollars with free convict labor, while thousands of African Americans died in horrific work conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Fact was, when I started looking for work, I noticed that all the laboring jobs were held by Mexicans. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They marched at night, when the surface of the pack was slightly cooler and harder, but even so the labor was horrendous. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The cost of labor went up, and suddenly millions of people were out of work. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Stripped now, half-naked, we did not look conspicuous, being no more indecent than many of the slaves who labored in the fields around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They saw me as just another one of the hundreds of blacks who were fit only for manual labor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Prisoners were required to do manual labor in very difficult work environments or face solitary confinement or other disciplinary action. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Just before labor began, the last star rays sank into my belly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fenugreek, with the cloverlike leaves, and tansy and goldenseal promote easy labor. Parsley and false unicorn root will bring away the afterbirth. And fennel or dill with chamomile will increase the milk.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They were mistaken; the upstart’s experiments succeeded—partly because, in the beginning years, he labored eighteen hours a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no way of knowing that during the night, his wife in great pain, and after nearly twenty-four hours of labor, gave bloody birth to a fragile baby girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And, with it, set off excitedly, his heart laboring, for the level below. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It is close to midnight when we hear the pickup laboring up the driveway. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Several times Oppenheimer stuck his head into the room to check on the progress, like an anxious husband whose wife was in labor. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z How many Congolese were killed by the Belgians and labor and starvation, by the special police, and now by the UN soldiers, we will never know. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Petersen’s store cut back on deliveries, citing fuel and labor shortages. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We’ve never done this together before, but we establish our rhythm, our division of labor. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z When Tendai first came to Dead Man’s Vlei, he wouldn’t have had the strength to pull himself up, but hard labor had toughened him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z As lawyers and national pundits became more prominent than clients and citizens, we isolated ourselves from the people who were our anchor and on whose behalf we had labored. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The bad news is, I can’t get my note to the labor department to tell them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Chaplain Shipman was seated in his tent, laboring over his paperwork in his reading spectacles, when his phone rang and news of the mid-air collision was given to him from the field. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The sound of crunching leaves and labored breathing filled the warm autumn air, and Celaena kept her gaze on the damp and gleaming dark hair of the thief in front of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Cora appreciated the labor that had gone into its construction. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After workers made gains in the mid-twentieth century, American labor unions lost strength. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z They worked quickly, accustomed to one another and the labor: Pima, their boss girl, taller than the rest and filling out like a woman, black as oil and hard as iron. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to stop child labor in Africa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was for this that we labored and fought, risking our very lives. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z You come to the market wif your own labor, your own money, to buy and sell what you can. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Just burghers. They live in towns and give their goods and labor to anyone who will pay them.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z After all that physical labor, I deserved a break. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I labored with excitement that first morning—and all the days after. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of this, factories in the North and the Midwest suffered an immediate and extreme labor shortage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “My wife is in labor at the hospital.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Time was probably the source of the joke I was laboring to recount. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our blood, our sweat, our labor are in American soil,” cried the Reverend Ruben Speaks, pastor of St. Mark’s AME Zion Church, standing on the steps of City Hall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Today the toilet is really getting back at us for all the years of cruel and unsanitary labor. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z More often than not, they labored as long as there was light, in the broiling heat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She noticed an amateur jazz trio laboring through standards on a park corner. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But guilt doesn’t go anywhere near far enough; the appropriate emotion is shame—shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stand by and watch a horse colic or a cow labor with a breech calf even though it meant personal ruin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It was a labor camp just a few kilometers outside Kraków. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She gives Levi and me a postcard that lists all the brands with abusive labor practices. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He and Min agreed on a price for the labor, and Crane-man began to weave the container under the eaves of Min’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Brademas uses the art club as unpaid labor for every poster and sign that goes up in the school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I cried out, faking labor, and fell to my knees on the dock. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Until the Chinese-style plow was imported in the seventeenth century, farmers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and other states labored to shove what amounted to a narrow slab of metal through the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All of the agency’s computing staffs, at Langley, Cleveland, Ames, and Muroc, traced their lineage back to the first pool, and to Tucker’s labor as the first female computer supervisor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When I returned, I learned that Winnie had already gone into labor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labors another Floating Fortress is built. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The fifth labor was to clean the Augean stables in a single day. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They were condemned to hard labor for five years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He strongly supported more rights and equality for the working class, such as better wages and the right to join labor unions. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Once the planter elite split the labor force, poor whites responded to the logic of their situation and sought ways to expand their racially privileged position. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And whether with worry or work—it doesn’t matter—my mother went into early labor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, one of his boys was shouting at the laboring men. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z These things were tied together with a bit of dirty string from the corset of a woman who had given birth to twins after only ten minutes of labor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were one hundred twenty- five in all, and I could hear the labored breathing of my fellow travelers as we climbed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Americans,” she wrote, “seem to be groping for a vision in which women have as much opportunity as men to develop their talents and reap the rewards of their labor and still remain women.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They could hear his labored breath, rattling through the air holes in his visor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The city was home to a large laboring class, a small middle class, and even a few millionaires who regularly packed up their wives and children for the Grand Tour of European capitals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Again and again the companions returned to their labors until they lay breathless and exhausted. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She saw the ghosts of all those unknown dead, heard the great house pant with the labored breath of an old woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She mentioned that there was one who had singular skills at caretaking, another who loved newchildren, one with unusual scientific aptitude, and a fourth for whom physical labor was an obvious pleasure. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The labor peace that Coalwood had enjoyed for more than fifty years came to an abrupt end. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Once manual labor ended, I had much more time for reading, but the books I had been using were now out-of-bounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that morning Mother’s breathing became increasingly labored. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I watch the muscles in Tobias’s back expanding and contracting with each labored breath, and I don’t hear our footsteps; I hear only my heartbeat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They were working men, with steel and asbestos in their lungs and years’ worth of hard labor under their calluses and cracked fingernails. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I searched high and low until my breath grew labored, but I found the castle strangely deserted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In the Andean tradition, labor was probably contributed by visiting work parties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He realized that the artisan who carved it probably received only a fraction of the sale price for his labor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Most labored as maids and waiters in homes and hotels, making just enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Die this way, die that way; pass out at hard labor, or get shot shuffling from one mysterious mound to the next—what's the difference? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was thickset and grizzled, dressed in a heavy rancher’s coat that had seen its share of labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And the nation’s economic depression was growing steadily worse, its labor situation more volatile. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 We did not speak much as we labored. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I recounted our grievances regarding food, visits, letters, studies, exercise, hard labor, and the behavior of warders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The streetcar labored on, moving away from the landmarks she knew, the greengrocer’s, the movie theater, the fire hydrants and neighborhood newspaper stands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Sugar was a bridge—like the sneakers and T-shirts and rugs that, today, we know are made by sweatshop labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The Nazis believed that the camps instilled obedience, discipline, and respect for hard physical labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We want to serve and to share, to labor and in turn consume that which is due to us. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Mami stood there watching, as I picked up the pencil, carefully tore a sheet from my notebook, and, in labored script, wrote, “Dear Tata, I hope when you receive this letter...” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z At first, it was just manual labor, factory labor. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There is no place for the Bantu in the European community above the level of certain forms of labor,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Unaccustomed to such strenuous labor, they would stop digging as they pleased, basking in the sun until they were trodden on by columns of marching rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In so far as the war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labor power. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z That sinners have always, for American Negroes, been white is a truth we needn’t labor, and every American Negro, therefore, risks having the gates of paranoia close on him. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Mom went into labor three days before Christmas, and she insisted we go holiday shopping together. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleaning and weeding was done as many as three times while the cane grew, and it was some of the worst labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z To bring in a new labor union, however small, in what he hoped would be his future constituency, would be an excellent beginning for a journey to the Legislative Assembly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the jaded horsemen would take a respite from their labors to see him, eating their breakfasts outdoors on the benches near the siding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But from afar, a galaxy reminds me more of a collection of lovely found objects—seashells, perhaps, or corals, the productions of Nature laboring for aeons in the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He has skills developed operating heavy machinery, laboring over a stew of molten bauxite at Kaiser Aluminum, once one of the best jobs in Spokane, Washington, a city of 200,000. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Absorbed by my surroundings and the gravity of the labor, I lost myself in the unfettered pleasures of ascent, and for an hour or two actually forgot to be afraid. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The tenth labor was to bring back the cattle of Geryon, who was a monster with three bodies living on Erythia, a western island. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Odyssey speaks of “the divine for which all men long,” and hundreds of years later Aristotle wrote, “Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Fighting between labor unions and mine owners was so fierce, they called it war. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z And she endured eight hours of labor before I came. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He conveniently ignored the fact that the ex-slaves wanted to work their own land, not labor for their former owners. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The crowd at the Plaza would most likely be dressed up, and I worried that she might feel out of place in an outfit most people associate with hard manual labor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I know what an ordeal this will be: no more school, my hair gone, hours of labor, washing the bedsheets . Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z This praise didn’t help when the two men went too far by putting on a play, The Cradle Will Rock, about labor strikes and corporate corruption. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “I promise to give you a tour later, when all the excitement is over,” Og said, his breathing a bit labored. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They didn’t so much as look up from their labor as the Supreme Captain brought in the stranger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This time she was long at labor and when Wang Lung came home at evening he found his father standing at the door and laughing and saying, “An egg with a double yolk this time!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I was working out of a casual labor agency—we regulars called it a slave market. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The government’s intention in creating the homeland system was to keep the Transkei — and other African areas — as reservoirs of cheap labor for white industry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Carter sentenced King to pay five hundred dollars and serve one year of hard labor in prison. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Besides, she had made every one of the petticoats she sent, so they were probably labors of love too. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His breathing is soft and labored, his brows furrowed, the fire still alight in his gaze. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There, they picked the best from among thousands of teenage boys fulfilling their compulsory labor service. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The law formed the National Labor Relations Board to protect both employers’ and employees’ rights and to intervene when labor and management disputes become deadlocked. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Since the 1890s, the first of May, known as May Day, had been celebrated with parades, many of them organized by the labor movement. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Moving at the snail’s pace that is the norm above 26,000 feet, the throng labored up the Hillary Step one by one, while I nervously bided my time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A Jewish Council was appointed, as well as a Jewish police force, a welfare agency, a labor committee, a health agency—a whole governmental apparatus. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The arm that curved out of the shift’s white sleeve was muscled by field labor, awful thin, but smooth as a child’s. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Time and again, she amazed him with a “shrewd ‘guess’” that was worth more than “a whole day’s painstaking labor.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In time, he heard his wife’s labored, rhythmic breathing and knew she was asleep. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He paces on the flattened grass by the ditch, remaining remarkably clean, while the driver labors to change the tire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the debit side, the labor pool was of a deeply alien culture, worshipping unfamiliar gods, speaking a language few Greeks understood. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z After they are married, Khouy and Laine go to live at a labor camp where they have been assigned to work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jethro labored for long hours beside Bill, and both of them were grave; but no mention was ever made of the things that had been said on the night of Jethro’s nightmare. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a common language to communicate with anyone, his loneliness on the cattle ranch became greater than it had been in the labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When his father finished his workday, the fruit of his labor lay before him: a musket, a rake, a wagon spring. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The ninth labor was to bring back the girdle of Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been trying to interpret them as genuine weekends, as if, after spending the weekdays on futile and largely cosmetic labor, I had decided to volunteer to do something useful for a change. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He proposed a trip to see more of Indiana, as a break from her labors. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He sat down, took a series of labored breaths, and began to talk. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z On this particular June Sunday they rode up through the lanes between the drystone walls that Beryl’s laboring ancestors had built, and over the top of Highdown Rise, with mud up their bare shins. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He told me his story, a South African story that was all too familiar to me: The man grows up under apartheid, working on a farm, part of what’s essentially a slave labor force. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Girls as young as ten and women old enough to be grandmothers labored alongside her. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z He endured long hours of physical labor to support his family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Spring came with blustering winds and torn clouds of rain and for Wang Lung the half-idle days of winter were plunged into long days of desperate labor over his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z While doing this labor I remember the words of Señor Santos. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The woman drove all night, and at dawn we reached a tent labor camp on the outskirts of Guadalupe, a small town on the coast. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t spent eight years building a reputation and a year laboring in Endovier to be disregarded like this. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In addition to suffrage, Victoria Woodhull's political platform called for labor reform, nationalizing railroads, prison reform, and rewriting the tax code. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “KAT stands for katorzhnik. Hard labor convict. It’s used to mark criminals who are sent to Siberia. But if he was Russian, I’d have known. I’d have heard it in his voice.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But as the weeks rolled by and each new day of enthusiastic labor added another gold star to my shining record he began to believe: timidly at first but at last triumphantly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “To atone for this crime, you will drink the water that cleansed us from our labors.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But in Hitler's Germany, labor unions were outlawed, and neither communism nor socialism was tolerated even though the Nazi Party's full name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The tailor shop at Plaszów, a nearby labor camp, needed more workers, we were told. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps Werner feels sympathy for the two million French prisoners of war that the Nazis have forced into labor in Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Now he has Jo and the baby, but as Jo herself knows and had written to Vincent only six months earlier while in labor—“there’s no one in the world whom he loves as much.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So, though I feel miserable, I labor well for this misery of a person. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z For all of them the days were filled with hard labor, with little enough to satisfy the hunger of their minds and spirits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z My mom's labor had to be induced to avoid any risk of me being born during a bombing raid. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Oh, yes, some now are here gray-haired among you, still dedicated to his vision, still laboring in the vineyard. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we were assigned to groups for the day's labor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Then she realized Mrs. Derby must be in labor. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I labor to remember something: twisted roots, an abyss ... Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they coordinated their activities, but more often the division of labor was informal and unplanned, arising spontaneously out of a commonality of interest: white supremacy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “And we can get you parts and labor at a deal. But you won’t need that for a while.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z These budding drug lords bumped up against an immutable law of labor: when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn’t pay well. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We’d been so proud of our division of labor, we forgot the most important cleanup task of all: Mrs. Kluck’s brand-new ice cream machine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The old man’s body relaxed and he got on his hands and knees, laboring heavily to breathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A new tax on Sunday labor off the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Now that manual labor can be done in developing countries for two dollars a day, skills and education have become more essential than ever. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It had taken nearly a week of hard labor to extract that tiny little piece. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 “All prisoners, political or otherwise,” says the second, “are forced to do labor, even if they have not been sentenced to it.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Livingston promptly returned to his labors on the accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, ma'am. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then you start again. Six days you labor and then Sunday you worship God.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Heaving and plunging, the stallion labored through the mire. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The insult of a child—a fourteen year old—hung between them, made their tongues heavy so that speech became a labor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She labors at this day in and day out. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Pearl had loved watching her mother at work, bent over the kitchen table, laboring with the precision of a surgeon—scalpel, needle, pins—to transform these toys into art. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For the last minutes, laboring hard under the cart’s weight on the uphill slope, I did not think at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z War prisoners, criminals, debtors, and orphans could be forced into labor. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The fear of raids by Indian tribes led plantation owners to grasp for an alternative source of free labor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The shrill cries of babies, the repetitive moans, and the echoes of shallow, labored breathing bombard the large space. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After two hours of backbreaking labor, hauling the boats through wet, heavy snow, detouring around piles of broken floe, they were only one mile from Endurance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Maybe I could use the fact that Cuba’s labor union was supporting the nationalization of all the private schools to convince Papa that going to the meetings was okay. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z In the decade that followed, an edgy peace between labor and management settled on our town, broken only by intermittent strikes, usually quickly settled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z While blacks were crowding into disease-ridden slums near downtown, whites were building mansions outside of Durham and enjoying the new luxuries bought with the tremendous profits they earned from cheap labor, black and white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The paintings displayed beautiful women cheerfully going about their tasks, but a few old photographs pictured gaunt crones with backs bowed by years of heavy labor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We are put to labor more useless than the work of beasts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then proceeded to show me—what persons who work with their bodies all their lives quickly learn—the most economical way to use one’s body in labor. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The commission sentenced Alfons to restriction to his town limits for a period of two years, six months’ expulsion from college, and one month of hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite end of the kitchen Mercy, having generously alloted to Kit the primer readers, was laboring with the beginners. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The hard labor of spring planting and fall harvesting is followed, like clockwork, by the slower pace of summer and winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z However, the soldiers say that Meng, at eighteen, is too old to live at home with us, and they force him to go live in the labor camp with Khouy and Laine. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She kept the man’s name to herself throughout her labor and dying; she did not accuse him that he be punished with her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It would always find a way inside of the fencing, filling itself up on the fruits of our labor. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Kate was laboring in the field, not at ploughing or sowing or weeding but at making a way for her baby into the world. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In a frenzy of hard labor, thousands have been built. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The North Korean government has created new labor camps to hold traders and travelers too poor or too unlucky to bribe their way north. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real “labor shortage,” only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Be humble, be proud of your labor, finish. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z All the boys in the lanes and back streets that have fathers on the dole or working in laboring jobs have to join. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He labors under an affliction in his speech, acquired through long habit of degradation or sudden excess of horror. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His mother was slight and delicate and not made for field labor, she was too kind to endure the plantation’s battery of cruelties. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The precious time and hard physical labor needed to carry all their supplies and transport the canoes over dry land wasn’t their only problem. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z One unanticipated result of ending manual labor was that I began to gain weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the contratista, the labor contractor, who drove around in his beat-up red Ford truck, honking the horn to let us know that the cotton was dry and ready to pick. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Downstairs again, he gathered the girl’s clothing together, stuffed every piece into the suitcases, then labored back down the hall once again and up the stairs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t know exactly, but my guess is at least a thousand dollars—between the materials and the labor. Maybe more.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The man who figured out a safe, reliable way to accomplish the same thing with far less labor was himself a product of a slave society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Tom Hamilton labored like a giant, not only with his strong arms and rough hands but also with his heart and spirit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Shut up, shut up!” she cried, and I could tell from her labored breaths that she was as exhausted as I was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The cannonade which had disturbed our labors being at an end, the corporal called to us to continue our binding of chevaux de frise, which labor we undertook again in silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Twelve years of dedicated labor. It is unconscionable,” he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My tribe’s migration came amid the time of European colonialism, and life was violent and turbulent across the region, as Africans were seized as slaves and forced into hard labor. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Seconds later she came to the barn door, pushing a reluctant ewe who was starting labor. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The thudding of a wasp at the window caught his attention over the laboring of the air conditioner. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The men laboring near Water Street had particular reason to curse. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It turns out Roli and I have to do sixty whole hours of free labor every year, while keeping up a B-plus average. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Ah, yes. Fancy the effect upon his melodies, laboring with his muse there so much closer both to Hell and the ruddy forge of Vulcan.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By the mid-1770s, the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Their scything weapons left our dead in piles, but some they took alive, into forced labor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When my class did collective labor every week, I always volunteered for the heaviest jobs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He began giving money to support causes like labor unions and striking farm workers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My legs labor to lift and drag me forward. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Three years later, after war broke out, the labor service was increased to one year and became compulsory for both boys and girls. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z With the secret and implacable labor of a small ant she predisposed the women of the village against the flightiness of their husbands, who were already preparing for the move. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z With so much unskilled labor looking for work, he was no longer dependent on Johnny Joyce and his skilled butchers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The rich and the poor, who are generally thought to live in a state of harmonious interdependence—the one providing cheap labor, the other providing low-wage jobs—can no longer coexist. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Otter remained at anchor near the point where we labored; thus covered, we returned to our duties. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For the boys still competing for a spot on the freshman crew, the deteriorating weather meant new forms of misery as they labored at their oars aboard Old New. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I said, “Mr. Lewis, are you one of those labor organizers?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Do you want to come to the labor department and the market?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Now I could rejoice over the time and labor it would save us, and I hurried into the house to share the triumph. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z By the time he turned fourteen in 1941, he had been supporting his mother and brother with his daily labor for two years. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 He lost several fingers working in a prison factory and was now disabled as a result of his forced labor at Angola. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I do, however, and $5 to $6 an hour for what this lady freely admits is heavy labor with a high risk of repetitive-stress injuries seems guaranteed to repel all mathematically able job seekers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Men, women, and children were in the fields at their lawful labor, plowing, weeding, sowing, where they would remain till dusk. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I thought about Christmas and felt sad, recalling living in tent labor camps in Corcoran during that holiday and seeing families struggling to make ends meet. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Very early in the morning on July 4, 1998, I felt the first twinges of labor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Hitler is winning and needs our labor elsewhere, insisted other prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the thread that sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We had moved to a labor camp also owned by Mr. Patrini and were picking grapes again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, the purpose of the black codes in general and the vagrancy laws in particular was to establish another system of forced labor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s about labor. The good things that were achieved—the railways, for example—but also how labor was exploited and the lengths the colonial enterprise went to.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On May 31,1910, in the wheat and cattle country of Cardston, Alberta, Rose was midway through her labor with George when her husband interrupted the doctor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Miss Anderson is too busy with her own wine glass to see that her neighbor is panting, laboring under the change his body is going through. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But thanks to the strikes, there was a positive outcome for the labor movement as well. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Let us say that the Muslims were to achieve the possession of the six or seven states that they claim are owed to Negroes by the United States as “back payment” for slave labor. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I was sick of thinking, so instead of trying to figure out where I'll get 250 liters of water, I did some manual labor. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was this obscure need that had pulled me into the labor movement in the beginning and by exercising it I was but fulfilling what I felt to be the laws of my own growth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought of their husbands, desperately seeking day labor in the city, trying to find any work that they could. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As dinnertime approached she began the nightly routine of laboring over the hot woodstove, feeding kindling into the firebox, trying to get enough flame to draw a draft up the chimney. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mill employees labored at dangerous jobs under miserable conditions—and for poverty wages—breathing in cotton dust until their lungs were brown with the stuff and they suffocated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That was not all—he labored with humor and good spirits. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In them, he saw a strong army of cheap labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Dill was still laboring to get his words out, desperately trying to thank me for trying to save his life. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Slave labor was valuable because it produced cheap sugar that everyone wanted to buy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His bony fingers hold his glasses across his chest, which rises and falls with each labored breath. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And I have thought that such is the bitterness of the labor that the child has been forgotten. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There they do the hard manual labor of loading and unloading shipments onto trucks. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It took me four miserable hours of hard labor, but I got it done. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Workers were paid by the ton, which both encouraged them to hack out coal with reckless haste and meant that any labor they expended making their environment safer or more comfortable went uncompensated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Far to her left many black faces labored in a large field near a river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Just after midnight on the 4th of February, 1958, I returned home after a meeting to find Winnie alone and in pain, about to go into labor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We decided we would focus on street children and those in child labor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On their orders, Royal apprenticed with a printer as soon as he was old enough to labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In under seven years, using volunteer labor, he built a 2,000-mile trail through mountain wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Even in defeat, the immigrants regained their dominance over laboring positions in the Stock Yard, and black strikebreakers returned to the South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As he labored up the Norvelt road incline and past us I saw that he had a police badge pinned to his khaki shirt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ball drew his last, labored breaths in Hall’s arms, lying comatose in a small tent high on the peak. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Father labored late at the gin and came home long after we’d all gone to bed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A Federal Department of Labor investigation languished amid prevailing American fears that labor unions harbored communists. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z They figured it was just more grandson labor. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Among its provisions are establishing a forty-hour work week and a national minimum wage as well as prohibiting oppressive child labor and most employment of minors. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She was sleeping when they got in and her breathing was labored. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This fervor was also brought about by the many labor strikes that were taking place throughout the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The labor group promised that the owners would never know. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Omakayas asked him, fearful, watching how he sweated and labored at the woodpile. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They labored together so closely for such long, unbroken hours that it was understandable that their contributions to the finished product blurred into one another. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He stood in front of his chair, leaned back cautiously, grabbed it with both hands, and collapsed into the chair with a series of quick, shallow breaths—like a woman in labor. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z We ate in silence, broken only by your labored breaths and the rainstorm lashing the banyan’s branches. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z On one page she saw a list of headings: exchange controls, rationing, the mass evacuation of large towns, the conscription of labor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z All the gayety which Wang Lung had never had from his labor on the land was held here in the walls of this house, where men met to play and never to work. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z After all, this land, it would take hours of labor again, and as O-lan said, it was far away, more than a li which is a third of a mile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Workers labored, carrying bricks and wood beams from carts and stacking them on the site. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The labor camp looked like an army settlement. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To do that was to risk imprisonment in a labor or concentration camp or execution. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She had had enough of watching the new wife do nothing while the rest of them labored, and she went up to her and told her that the time had come for her to work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z As rumors continued to spread that labor unions, churches, and organizations such as the League of Women Voters were under Communist control, the American public became increasingly alarmed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z And if they did decide to explore on their own, without permission, they could be thrown in jail, sentenced to hard labor, or lose some of their hard-earned wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The man, her mother’s only brother, didn’t look up from his labor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1970s Robert Carneiro, of the American Museum of Natural History, estimated the labor required to clear a field before the advent of steel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Animated matter granted rudimentary intelligence. He does most of the heavy labor around here.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The chorus labors through the first phrase and then rushes forward with hugs, kisses, and—from a couple of the boys—fake karate kicks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He said looking for work was more worry than a hard day’s labor. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, he had to find new sources of labor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Yet wages for people near the bottom of the labor market remain fairly flat, even “stagnant.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides casualties,” said Adams, “we also got motorcycle accidents, women in labor, all kinds of stuff which happened to the locals.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A long-simmering labor dispute between nearly thirty-five thousand members of the International Longshoremen’s Association and steamship companies had flared up in port cities up and down the West Coast. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Behind them, to Lee’s surprise, the zeppelin was still laboring to rise. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A splash, a labored beating of wings, and Zerubabel was in a gull’s beak, its pale, pink shell already crushed, its tiny pincers loosely dangling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I hope when my parents come to visit over the next few days, my breathing is a little less labored. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z They also believed camp life fostered a sense of camaraderie among young people from all classes, since rich and poor alike lived side by side, performing the same manual labor and sharing rations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Feels real great to see the fruits of my labors. Awful glad you came, son. Awful glad...” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Union and community leaders, four white and three black, gave emotional speeches glorifying the strength of a united laboring class. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As snow began falling and the temperature dropped, the men labored up and down icy slopes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "Business before pleasure is always a good rule, whoever you are. Some day the rule shall be business with pleasure, for the joy of labor shall have been restored. Sit down." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I labored on it, with, I now see, considerable malice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside North Korea, the penalty for listening to these stations can be ten years in a labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But Teenie kept her busy from dawn to dusk doing what Polly considered to be slave labor—peeling potatoes, shelling peas, shucking corn, and carrying heavy stacks of kindling for the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Like that tho men and women both do the heavy labor, women give more orders that more men follow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But what could the former slaves dor1 Every Indian who accepted the paltry wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the price an African could charge for his labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Many labored under hot suns and then killed the restless ache with alcohol. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s only the first labor, which is almost always protracted. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The eleventh labor was the most difficult of all so far. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So I dance in the moonlight, make foul jokes, or labor to shake the foundations of night with my heaped-up howls of rage. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The motel room was small, like the cabins we lived in at the cotton labor camps. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “There,” said Himmler, “they must first of all be thrashed and then exercised and compelled to do hard labor....” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z While my teachers labored over the rigors of their chosen subject, I sat in the back, pretty much bored out of my mind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As they inspected the factory and learned the best way to cut the power supply, Dasch noticed that the "foreign labor" at the plant was actually the Nazi version of "slave labor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z When Pearl was born—on an unseasonably warm May afternoon, at the hospital, after fourteen hours of labor—Mia took the birth record card from the nurse. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For the first time, life was regularized, with division of labor and communal efforts, such as defense and public works projects. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z But if we do so, we should labor under no illusions that we will end mass incarceration or shake the foundations of the current racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Nah. The contractions aren’t that bad and are still like twenty minutes apart. I cleaned our entire house, from top to bottom, while I was in early labor with you.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Try to get some sleep, Father. Try to fall asleep . . .” His breathing was labored. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The teachers in the labor camp had punished children who asked questions. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It is well known that Neuengamme is a concentration camp near Hamburg, notorious for its subhuman conditions, where brutal guards force prisoners to do hard labor with inadequate food and live in squalid cells. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Some were also imprisoned or sentenced to hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Metal arms labored mightily at the rubbish heap brought down by the last blast. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The Moon was near Full, & by its Light, I could see Figures laboring all around us on the Crest of Breed’s Hill. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His breathing was labored; he mumbled and twice flayed his arms as if to shake some invisible attackers off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The twelfth labor was the worst of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He did farm labor between revivals, and in the autumn of ’41 it was our first enterprise as newlyweds to bend our backs together in the dusty fields. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I could reduce my caloric use by minimizing manual labor. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath both sun and rain, with my sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters I will labor. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “But there were some well-off people who didn’t want to do this labor, and they were willing to pay for someone to take their place,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He was sentenced to nine months of hard labor and sent immediately to a prison in the northern part of the state. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Faced with a labor shortage, the Europeans turned their eyes to Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was always hard labor—digging cisterns, building roads, hauling bricks, crushing rocks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet here she sits at the table, in labor, with her husband and mother and sister-in-law, writing to Vincent on a piece of cream-colored paper, in Dutch, with black ink. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But Park feared that if he missed the vote, the government would notice his absence, declare him to be a traitor, and send his family to a labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her screams of labor became screams of terror. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The huge demand for inmate labor kept the prison overfull, while Clinton prison, far from downstate markets, was partly empty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like every boy I knew in Levittown, I knew how to do manual labor. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z This was labor she recognized, she understood the elemental rhythms of planting and harvest, the lessons and imperatives of the shifting seasons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It is alleged that the disturbance was caused by labor agitation, as papers of a subversive nature were found on and about the site of disturbance. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Loyalists forced immigrants to join the labor squads, maintaining control with the occasional massacre. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At a war labor conference that Hampton Institute hosted in 1942, MacLean told attendees that the war could be “the greatest break in history for minority groups.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z After his defection, he learned that his sister and brother were sent to a labor camp, where his brother later died. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Attorney General Tom C. Clark developed a list of these organizations, which included everything from African American civil rights groups to labor unions and virtually anyone associated with communism or the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By their labor the slave populations allow the tempo of continuous warfare to be speeded up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In the early Morning, armed Regiments began to take up Muskets & move about the Fortification; & many who had labored all Night now prepared to defend their Works all Day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The master roared his orders hugely, and Shadow was untied and towed clear of the docks by two laboring rowboats. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, I don’t really have a choice since my parents own the place. Free child labor and all, you know?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul’s gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z On his head was a soiled brown Stetson hat, and he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute labor, had haunted the human imagination for thousands of years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She now had a single maidservant, devoted to her since youth, and an aging manservant, Jacob, previously of the stables, who performed all heavy labor about the house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was no better than being condemned to the garment-center labor force. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The Black newcomer had been recruited on the desiccated farm lands of Georgia and Mississippi by war-plant labor scouts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The grunts and panting of a man in violent labor or perhaps—I thought with a sickening shudder—one seized by ecstatic bloodlust. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He lost Jacob’s labor, though if the man had been talented the overseer would have subjected him to a less drastic punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was a labor camp on the site. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, it was unskilled labor, but for what it's worth, I did very little sweeping. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Soldiers ran a bayonet through a woman in labor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At the juncture between turn and homestretch, he collared the last of the front-runners, Half Time, who was laboring along the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She had stopped in her labor to prepare them food! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The fitting and nailing on of the planks was labor intensive and nerve-racking. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It may even be replaced by the mechanical labor of a machine. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of the black people’s labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture, their history—and even their human dignity? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But still he was useful for he watched the labor of others and he stood by when the grain was weighed and measured. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It kept rotating to the grind of the laboring gears, which sounded louder now. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Men were laboring with Mattocks & Axes & Picks & rustic Grubbing Hoes — & together they digged out & built up the Breastworks & Redoubts at the Eminence of the Hill. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He said it would be laughable for me to continue to study luxurious and abstract knowledge when a world of practical utility awaited my laboring hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “He passed me over for promotion in favor of another student. He was keeping me back so he could use me as indentured labor, rather than raise me to Re’lar.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I sat in a chair next to his bed and watched him laboring to breathe. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This Sunday was to be a feast day for everyone, but more especially for the twenty-four elders, who were, that day, to be gloriously banqueted at the saints’ expense and labor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z That night, I saw how labored her every movement had grown, and I asked about her pains. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At the same time, in Narewka and many other villages throughout Poland, men were conscripted for forced labor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “And I’d like to offer my services to help your community rebuild. I can do the repairs at cost, and only charge for materials and labor.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z You were all still deciding what to do when you went into labor. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The labor of getting things down off of a shelf or out of a barrel was nothing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Park told Shin that the United Nations had begun to criticize human rights violations inside the North’s political labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Army offered us rations, which gettings Sip and I could not refuse; and so we repaired to the city gates, where our fiddlers’ fingers took to ruder labor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We weren’t healthy, not by a long shot, but without the heavy labor of the day, our bodies recovered a little. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the shooting ceased and in the silence there was the sound of voices, footfalls, labor. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z After two hours of brutal labor, during which I whined a lot, I got it all loaded in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of French prisoners of war are shipped to Germany for forced labor in the German countryside, and Hitler sends the Luftwaffe to bomb Britain. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Any student refusing to sign will be sent to a German labor camp. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He straightened from his labor and looked across the rolling hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must know that already. Any girl who can hold a needle and thread would’ve sufficed. Free labor is free labor.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mining officials were eager to recruit labor in the countryside, and the chiefs had authority over the men they needed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 This went on until we arrived at the labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Sugar, with its demand for relentless labor, was a killer. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “She died when she birthed me. Alys came, they said, and helped, but I was big and she labored too long, and bled, and she died. It happens sometimes.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Though we were doing barely enough labor at the quarry to work up a sweat, the walk there and back was enough to keep me trim. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He would arrive home, his huge muscular body obviously tired from the physical labor of his job. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The extra labor incensed many of the repairmen, who took their anger out on seamstresses by grabbing their hair, slamming their heads against walls, and kicking them in the face. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Thousands of captives died in his quarries, chained to his sledges, or laboring on his five colossal towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Painfully, laboring to help each other up, they became hopelessly entangled instead. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Citra’s mother brought him something to drink at his request, and now labored to make sure tonight’s dinner was the finest she had ever served. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The policy all but ignored the existence of the labor camps and made no attempt to monitor who in North Korea benefited from the aid. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z More and more Europeans saw growing sugar in the New World with slave labor as the road to vast wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Six of them, Fanti and Mandingo if the broker was to be believed, their bodies and temperament honed for labor by nature. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I am in labor for seven hours, the agony so great in the last stretch that I wonder if it’s possible to split in half. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z "That girl gave me more trouble getting born than any of the others. And the funny thing was she was the last and smallest of the four. Twenty-four hours in labor." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Yet he labored on, struggling up a long, dim slope. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z After one particularly labored pull, he lifted his head and looked me in the eye and said really clearly, “I can’t breathe.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Ugwu loved the sound of Division of labor, my good man, spoken in English. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After hours of grueling labor, I finally got the ramp made. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As plantation farming expanded, particularly tobacco and cotton farming, demand increased greatly for both labor and land. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Unlike Pa, Ma was never used to hard work or labor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in the second year of a go-slow strike at the quarry, demanding a complete end to all manual labor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So for a time the inn resounded with the rumble of the thunder, the cries of the laboring mother, and the useless clucking of the woman’s husband. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the moment it took her to take another labored breath, she fell backward in time and remembered another day, another hut. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He’s acting like we’re about to engage in serious physical labor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Men everywhere, of every color, stripped to the waist, labored in the sun. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I missed him for a long time after he and his family moved from the same labor camp we lived in. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “How nice my handkerchiefs look, don’t they? Hannah washed and ironed them for me, and I marked them all myself,” said Beth, looking proudly at the somewhat uneven letters which had cost her such labor. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He labored home far behind the winner, Menow, diving for a photo finish for third place. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had a miserable personality but the sounds that came from his body made the labor fly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When all was quiet, the miller’s wife began her labors again, and finally, as Beetle told the cat later, “There come a baby.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And although it was their underpaid labor that transformed Durham into the Jewel of the New South, their presence in the “better areas” of town was not welcome. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Ten million black men and women are laboring long hours in unskilled jobs, earning barely enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If Meg had wanted a reward for hours of patient labor, she received it in the hearty pressure of her father’s hand and the approving smile he gave her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Could you tell them that my father is dead, my mother and my brother are in a labor camp in Germany, and that it is up to me to care for my little sister?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Their parents certainly loved both their daughters, but Shaina was regarded as too beautiful to do physical labor, while my mother was not. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The tiny puppy, motionless but for its labored breathing, lay in the curve of her belly, the way any puppy would. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “How is it I can understand you and you can understand me?” the creature in the shadows said in between heavy, labored breaths. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Months after the death of Madame Manec, Marie-Laure still waits to hear the old woman come up the stairs, her labored breathing, her sailor’s drawl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a nervous time: every afternoon, one of his force later recalled, several thousand Indian soldiers approached in canoes to within “a stone's throw” of the Spanish and mocked them as they labored. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could clearly see the results of my labor: the long satin scarves and magazine covers were very real to me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In the weeks following, friends cautioned that I had no idea how hard physical labor really is. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All across the decks, crewmen called and labored under the hot sun, orienting sails, drilling for fire attacks, clearing deck materials as they readied for the fight that they hoped would come. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Amari could hear laughter of men on boats and slow, sad chants of slaves working in the rice fields nearby, finishing up their labors for the day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He held the boy and bent to hear the labored suck of air. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But he was ecstatic, because the prospect of those endless years of hard labor did not seem like a burden to him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In 1867, Andrew Johnson, the nation’s first post-Civil War president and a former slaveholder, advocated a new practice that quickly replaced slavery as a main source of agricultural labor in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The idea that the value of goods was based on the amount of labor that went into them seemed particularly appropriate for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma experienced premature labor pains the day Charles wrote the memorial, but then the pains stopped. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From my reading, it seemed to me that Texas is emerging as a separate force and that the South is in the pain of labor with the nature of its future child still unknown. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As is, she is shy and skittish, possibly because she never leaves the hive, but spends her days confined in darkness, a kind of eternal night, perpetually in labor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 I've got a lot of backbreaking physical labor to do tomorrow. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Joon and I both possess Uhmma’s lean fingers, but without the hard, yellowed calluses formed by years of abuse from physical labor. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z She found her house a stable of filth and abomination and she set to cleaning it with the violence and disgust of a Hercules at labor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 The fourth labor was to capture a great boar which had its lair on Mount Erymanthus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The only means to pay off their debts was through labor on plantations and farms—known as convict leasing—or in prisons that had been converted to work farms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While she was in labor, she was watching The Young and the Restless, and so she named me Ashley after one of the soap opera characters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Some had been in labor camps, some in concentration camps, some even in the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Working closely with a former business editor, Glenn Kramon, David labored for months to create a financial portrait of the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Sugar plantations were Hell because of the endless labor they demanded from slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Surely if she could keep the girl at hard labor and half starve her, too, that hateful beauty of hers would soon be lost. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Serving size is based on your age, height, body type, health, and amount of physical labor required by your schedule. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Beside the new prisoners, the older prisoners like me looked pathetically weak and incapable of any kind of real labor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Most were attached to labor battalions, as cooks and stevedores, laborers and gravediggers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z These multinationals went global for markets and labor, spearheaded first by the expansion of the Dutch and English joint-stock companies and the Industrial Revolution. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z You can get hard labor for it, things like breaking rocks fifteen hours a day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labor that would build several hundred cargo ships. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They intended to use the healthiest Jews as slave labor in their factories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I guess it was designed to be an offer I couldn’t refuse, but I’d have rather spent the summer in a Siberian labor camp than live with my uncle and his spoiled kids. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I brought my laptop, which soon also labored under the e-mail onslaught. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had already covered their lightweight chaulnots with their heavy woolen ones against the coming evening chill—proof that not one joule of energy had been converted to heat by means of respectable labor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Things have changed. Child labor laws; you can’t take children to sea.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I came up with a solution, but I'd done enough physical labor for one day, and I was almost out of daylight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon the mention of the estate, a man cleaning the pool looked up at them for a moment before returning to his labors. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hawaiian labor corvees built elaborate irrigation systems for taro fields yielding up to 24 tons per acre, the highest crop yields in all of Polynesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But it snowed twenty inches the day before Essie went into labor, so when they called me, I went alone. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His unpaid labor made cotton “King” and established America as a significant nation in international commerce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And the second day of it was worse; but after that he hardened to the labor, and got on well enough. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Boycotts had been used before, as far back as 1832, when a national convention of free blacks meeting in Philadelphia initiated a boycott of goods made by slave labor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He would do here what he had done on the labor details back in the village: He would not complain. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z All the rest—like me—were on earth to labor, to serve our masters and our God. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z According to the scullery maid she was still bedridden; apparently her labor had been complicated. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The biggest political units could assemble large labor forces to construct irrigation systems and fishponds that intensified food production even further. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But scientific experimentation is manual labor, from which the slaveholders are preferentially distanced; while it is only the slaveholders—politely called “gentle-men” in some societies—who have the leisure to do science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All that could be heard in the dining room was Clara’s labored breathing and the metallic clang of the keys at Ferula’s waist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shall I never see it again! With all this labor and begging there is never enough to do more than feed us today.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Audrey’s eyes were half closed—she never could hold her liquor—but she said, “It was probably false labor. Sometimes it happens.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Poor? Did I hear poor? When the dollars are literally flowing into this home from my labors? And flowing out even more rapidly.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The enslavement of Africans for labor in the Americas is one example. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The nasty, small, gloating smile with which she glanced back at the laboring old woman was both wicked and apprehensive. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They were Hell because the slaves who labored without end got nothing for their work—except to live another day, to work more. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Truman’s contingent is not big enough for a division of labor. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes, Aaron could get extra food, and he did not have to do heavy outside labor, but his survival depended on something more than that. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Even over the stink of his labor, of the mud and the plaster and the rain that had wet him and then dried, he could smell Cari’s body. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, days later, when the clouds disappeared and the sun emerged, the lake began to split into hundreds of small puddles throughout the labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In a frenzy, local police rounded up labor leaders and suspected radicals, plus hundreds of workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The arrangement with the family works well for me since I am used to long hours of labor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought that everything would go well and that I would get off with a few years in prison or at hard labor. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z But several days of crisp fall air and heavy labor by Vanderbilt’s men had dried the surface well. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham claimed the agreement was a victory for the exposition, but in fact the fair’s concessions were a breakthrough for organized labor, and the resulting contracts became models for other unions to emulate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There was no dangerous outside labor, no exhausting work quotas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Ridiculed by the same society that grew wealthy on the labor of his kind, C.P. had at last found a measure of self-respect and meaning in the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Then you can,” I told the inmate, opening the same brake Blaine had so labored to close moments before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their labor and their taxes helped to build roads, temples, nobles’ houses, and other structures. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We were still ten kilometers from the village when my chronic backache spread to a deep, rock-hard contraction across my lower belly, and I understood with horror that I was in labor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 No one noticed that there was an extra mouse laboring among the workers in the roadway. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Eight months earlier, the man said, Chinese police had arrested him and sent him back to North Korea, where he had served a few months in a labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His breathing became labored, but he did not slow down. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see Atlas, but I could hear him groaning in the distance, still laboring under the weight of the sky, just beyond the fortress. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z After stopping at three different cotton labor camps we found one that gave us work and a one-room cabin to live in. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In order to put the maximum number of men to work, Hitler had decreed that virtually all the labor was to be done by hand, even that which machines could do more efficiently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Recalling the different labor camps we lived in, I answered, “I don’t want to live in Selma, Visalia, Bakersfield, or Corcoran.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Just as Lawrence had warned Sproul that the cyclotron diaspora was bound to end Berkeley’s monopoly on cheap grad-student labor, it was now ending Berkeleys monopoly on cyclotron technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All right, after labor and what we put into fertilizer maybe you’ve got two hundred worth of berries? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Six months ago, in September, Shukumar was at an academic conference in Baltimore when Shoba went into labor, three weeks before her due date. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z No gene, no message, and no protein labored in vain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead, the Spanish wanted native peoples to use as a source of forced labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Grace’s body twisted on the bed in a way that it hadn’t during her labor, like it was confused about where Peach had gone, and her toes curled and her hands flexed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Like seeing the look on the German soldier’s face when I came walking up to the labor camp at Janowska. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 “Now how do you spell that? D-u-n-n . . Setting the newspaper on the round table next to her chair, she writes a name, phone number, and e-mail address above the headline, laboring over the “@.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He would have been fascinated by its implications, moved by the tenderness of its labor, and struck by its strange explanatory power. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And, of course, in convincing laboring blacks that “we’re all in this together,” the Mutual was assisted by a largely unfriendly white world that did lump all African-Americans into a single group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z According to Mom, even though I was born on April 2, she went into labor with me on April Fools’ Day. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She was beginning to see subtle differences in how each spirit moved—the clenching of shadowy fists on an upward flush into the sky, the curve of a spine from a life of hard labor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “What if I have a migraine when she goes into labor?” she told him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z While we labored over changing beds or washing up dishes, Pascal would wait outside, teasing for our attention by shouting the handful of American phrases Leah had taught him: “Man-oh-man! Crazy!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It certainly wasn’t like the one she had labored on in Suzuki class so long and with so little result. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Squirrels prepared their winter hoard; ants labored in their earthen castles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Primary and secondary school trained them for hard labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The sound of clashing weapons and labored breathing filled the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They arrived at Oppie’s house to find fifteen employees of various Berkeley labs seated on the floor, listening to two labor organizers outline their goals. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By using forced civilian labor to do these tasks, the Nazis could send more soldiers to the front. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Their longing for them was great enough to make them never give up laboring to see them clearly, until at last the thunder and lightning were changed into the Universal Father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the physicians in the room, Dr. Ezra Abbott, makes notes on Lincoln’s condition: 6:30—still failing and labored breathing. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A brick wall would be put up — a labor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Hermione cast the merrily dancing flames a dark look, and Harry distinctly heard her mutter “Slave labor,” before bidding them good night and disappearing through the doorway to the girls’ dormitory. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Think of a man whose dear and only son, born to him in exile, reared with labor, has lived ten years abroad and now returns: how would that man embrace his son! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husband had gone to Germany with an infantry division, and now she was struggling through the second day of a difficult labor. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z At a migrant labor camp not far from Duke, Farmer met a Belgian nun, Julianna DeWolf, who worked with Friends of the United Farm Workers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Free from the BDM and compulsory labor service, her new life had begun at last. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It is a concentration camp solely for women, a labor camp and prison. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In fact, I suspect that the free breakfast he provided us rep-resented the only concession to the labor shortage that he was prepared to make. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Corporate decision makers, and even some two-bit entrepreneurs like my boss at The Maids, occupy an economic position miles above that of the underpaid people whose labor they depend on. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah. And we have all enjoyed the fruits of your labor.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “I was laboring under too much emotion. I merely wanted to impress the Court with the urgency of this situation. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Once they drugged women, induced labor, cut them open, sewed them up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest—somewhere between 20 and 40 percent—went to the right, to the labor camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There are not exactly people here but what amounts to canned labor, being preserved between shifts from the heat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The labored banter of his friends was only making his head ache. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We settled in “Tent City,” a labor camp owned by Sheehey Strawberry Farms located about ten miles east of Santa Maria. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Back in Detroit, the labor war had stagnated, with each side accusing the other of failing to communicate. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The room was narrow and dirty; nothing could alter its dimensions, no labor could ever make it clean. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z "They sent me to Ravensbruck after the Red Cross came. Hard labor." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “He worked for me a few years ago. Díaz, the labor contractor, had it in for him and sent him back to Mexico.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The obligatory labor meant less time to cultivate their own fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z So I labored with diligence at my music, in which a court lady must be accomplished. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “And that our sentence shall be...twenty-five years’ hard labor.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “It requires indeed some courage to undertake a labor of such far-reaching extent,” Mendel would write later. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I’d never labored under the false notion that my mom was infallible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Captured American and British and Australian soldiers were forced into slave labor, starved, and beaten. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite increasing committee interference and intensified conflict between Burnham and Director-General Davis, and with the threat of labor strikes ever present, the main buildings rose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Suicide is a powerful temptation for North Koreans plucked out of ordinary lives and subjected to the labor camps’ regime of hard labor, hunger, beatings, and sleep deprivation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Aztecs required tribute in the form of military service, physical labor, crops, and manufactured products. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As word spread in Seoul of his birth in and escape from a no-exit labor camp, he began to meet many of the South’s leading human rights activists and heads of defector organizations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He could feel the breath laboring raggedly within his chest; he must win! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z That was before Doc sent me a personal bill for five dollars for “sutures and labor.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She drove us, for a fee, to a tent labor camp on the outskirts of Guadalupe, a small town on the coast. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The regime he imposed was draconian: He subtracted the labor that kept Pennsylvania’s inmates occupied during the day in their cells, as well as the opportunity they had for daily exercise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With that, he lowered himself into the ooze and, pushing heavy debris aside with every labored step, searched frantically for his mother and brother. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z While the white settlers in Natal were happy to have cheap Indian labor, they were dead set against allowing Indians to live there as equals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hawaii was also unique within Polynesia in using mass labor for aquaculture, by constructing large fishponds in which milkfish and mullet were grown. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Through bleary eyes, Tally saw that it was a 3-D copy of the note, perfect down to the slight incisions of Shay’s labored penmanship on the paper. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z On accepting a job in the Rad Lab in 1941, however, he promised Lawrence not to embarrass the lab with labor activism or other causes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Years ago the farmers tried to draw more labor than they needed so that they could lower wages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "Hurry, Doctor," a man called from the stoop, "she's already in labor!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This set a precedent for using federal soldiers to enforce corporate interests against labor. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But she went into labor five weeks before her due date, and the baby was stillborn. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Marines had supervised its construction, forcing peasants to do the labor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We’d worked so hard for God’s favor, yet it seemed God was still waiting for some extra labor on our part, and it was up to my father to figure out what. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no hope of a laboring man with a North of Ireland accent getting a job in Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was in line at the labor department early. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We have started a project in Swat for girls suffering from domestic child labor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Just then, the Old Man shuffled He breathed slowly and with great labor through his wide-open mouth. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I pictured him, trembling, his breath growing labored, until finally the string breaks ... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He promised them that they would not be inconvenienced for more than a day or two, that the Americans would soon be shipped to Dresden as contract labor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The third labor was to bring back alive a stag with horns of gold, sacred to Artemis, which lived in the forests of Cerynitia. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably enjoyed the thought of the children laboring up all those steps, too. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “During World War II, when many American men had either gone to war or were working in industries that produced equipment for the war, there was a shortage of farm labor,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z We being ready to retire following our labor, we received orders that all companies should instead be prepared for deployment, but no word of our purpose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Nhamo labored for several days, but one morning the lonely-sickness struck her with such force, her spirit felt like it was being circled by hyenas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t going to the labor camp in Lwów after all, he said. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We shuffle our way across Przemyśl to the labor department building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His responsibilities included supervising a large pool of cheap black labor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For someone so active in the labor movement, Raizel surely knew the risk we were taking just by coming here. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For the rest of the night, Houseman and Stewart labored over the script, adding details, sprucing up dialogue, and building suspense. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Not only were Russian farms run on unfree labor, but they used very simple, old-fashioned methods of farming. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He reminded of my friend Don Gabriel, the bracero who stood up to Díaz, the labor contractor, who tried to force Don Gabriel to pull a plow like an ox. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The labored form of each letter and the irregular space between words was full of the struggle for control over the errant, self-willed pencil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The symbol matched the swirling tattoos on Nailer’s cheeks, the labor marks that gave him a right to work the wrecks under Bapi’s supervision. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Each night before she blew out the last candle, she would labor over the page, picking out letters and sometimes even words that were familiar to her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The second labor was to go to Lerna and kill a creature with nine heads called the Hydra which lived in a swamp there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z See with me, my young friends, hear with me: The weeping and wailing of those who shared his labors. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "Of course it matters. It's wrong. No one has the right to the fruits of another's labor." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Sahagun is known as the first American anthropologist, for he labored for decades to understand the Indians he sought to convert. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z More water sprayed from the walls, and still the crew labored. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He was told to measure pills with the younger children, and his quota was twice theirs, “to teach him the value of labor.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Below them, boys were still laboring, though some of the small ones had lost interest and were searching this new forest for fruit. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “It is labor too hard for an old man...” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But when Dawn set another day a-shining I took my spear and broadsword and I climbed a rocky point above the ship, for sight or sound of human labor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Lewald’s voice echoed in the background as the announcer labored to fill the air, describing the uniforms of various teams, the platform on which the speakers stood, the Hindenburg circling overhead like a near moon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the shed the companions tried to sleep, knowing the night to come would be one of hard and dangerous labor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t understand,” Mrs. Derby said as another labor pain gripped her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The labor pains rolled faster and stronger with each contraction. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z At sunset we drove into a labor camp near Fresno. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Katie was in labor all that day and there was nothing that Johnny could do—nothing that he could do. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors were worried and told my parents they might have to induce labor if the contractions didn’t restart. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was hard work, though—Hatsue and her sisters would do a lot of it in their lives—stoop labor performed in the direct sun. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His labors in the night had drained a lot of his energy. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The holes were ready, however, which saved me much labor and time. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She could hear the soft whisper of his labored breathing, the endless rush of waters, the faint chords of some love song drifting up from the yard, so sad and sweet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z What does she think, that the Walton family is living in some hidden room in the back of the store, in the utmost frugality, and likely to be ruined by $21 worth of wasted labor? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As his old rival Specify flew to the victory, Seabiscuit labored in sixth, Kayak eighth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is theft of my property. Your labor belongs to me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After a week’s labor, she had the three stark images: boy—inn—fish. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But the Indians were not property; they were not defined by their years of labor as indentures. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Piggy came with it, in shorts and shirt, laboring cautiously out of the forest with the evening sunlight gleaming from his glasses. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But he had decided what he wanted to do with the rest of his life: he would be a human rights activist and raise international awareness about the existence of the labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His nostrils were dark and fiery as he labored around me, pumping up the chair and stropping his razor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Cyclopes! I tell you, Stheno, when I destroy Neptune and take over the oceans, we will renegotiate the Cyclopes’ labor contract. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Other evicted Polish families were forced into labor camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Making Egypt pay, therefore, depended on keeping up the infrastructure and social institutions that had already existed for millennia, such as irrigation, flood control, and conscripted labor. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “And I would also wager that now is not the time. Hugo, attend to your labors.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The Indian indentures were lied to, they were tricked, they were no more than cheap labor to keep the plantations running—but they were still individuals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z However that was, he labored long and devotedly on the statue and produced a most exquisite work of art. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He coaxed a phenomenal amount of work out of his rigid body, laboring so hard over his horses through the week that he had to sleep straight through Sunday to recover. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That day and for several thereafter, the kapo got Jack assigned to a coveted indoor job in the camp machine shop so he would not have to march outside or do heavy labor. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The road is flat, but he’s laboring as if he’s going uphill. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But soon, especially with so much labor needed for the tobacco fields, Africans were brought to Virginia and sold as slaves for fife. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Blanca was laboring at the computer writing a paper for one of her classes and I wasn’t. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He went to work early on Saturday, glad to be doing physical labor so he wouldn’t drive himself crazy thinking about the concert and Tatiana. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The labor had been long, grueling, and when the baby finally came the mother had torn, and badly. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most of these ragged men had nothing beyond what they took in the day’s labor and begging, and he was always conscious that he was not truly one of them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They are national holidays in North Korea, and even in a no-exit labor camp, prisoners get the day off. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Moreover, the labor of the exploited peoples round the Equator is not really necessary to the world’s economy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Rather it was at that moment I realized that I was fooling myself if I expected a few weeks of labor to gain me admission to the world of the laborer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The night of your tenth birthday? What were you doing in the lab? You were supposed to be on your way to the labor camps.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z 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 “She must be in a labor camp. And Tzipora, she is a big girl now. She too must be in a camp . . .” How we would have liked to believe that. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His lips nestle close to my ear, and I feel his labored breaths on my skin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z On July 30, he sent the fruits of his labors to Washington, who found the Hamilton draft “exceedingly just, & just such as ought to be inculcated.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I found a socialist bookstore and read a history of the labor movement. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Monday morning, after getting Mama’s blessing, I headed for school, which was only about a mile from the cotton labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Nsia’s breath was labored; I feared she suffered from some asphyxiation, and went to tend to her; all her attention being fixed on the object behind me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Hard physical labor in a space suit is murder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The father was a labor officer for the customs department of a shipping company. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He declined to socialize or work with other North Koreans who had been released from labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Bushels full of that sneaky weed stood as testament to my labors. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And the smell of your fruit and the labor of your days we abhorred. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But I can remember when we came to it with prayer, listening for trouble in our laboring old motors, drawing a plume of steam from our boiling radiators. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands were callused from the work he’d done at the salt factory, and he was afraid the hard labor had made his fingers clumsy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Their assignment was to guard one hundred American prisoners of war, who would work as contract labor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t known anything, really, of day labor, the life of apprentices. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias labored over the fire, trying to get it to do more than smoke. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Rules were the same in other North Korean labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He despised both his mother and his father for selfishly breeding in a labor camp, for producing offspring doomed to die behind barbed wire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He pursued more stimulating projects, whilst I, alone in the chamber, labored through his Classical obscurities. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “What a labor of love it is,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He tries to fly but labors only inches into the gray, sour cloud and flops back to earth. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Barbara took time out from her work as a labor activist to set down her memories. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They say that you’ve been sent away to the Republic's labor camps and that your family will not see you again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Do you remember,” he drawled reflectively, with an air of labored recollection, “that girl who was hitting me on the head that day in Rome?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But on the day the labor group picketed the restaurant, Paniagua refused to put down his order pad. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Organizing the division of labor, deciding who would do what. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, many of our grassroots African supporters saw Indians as exploiters of black labor in their role as shopkeepers and merchants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the 1950s, small cotton farming was becoming increasingly less profitable, even with the low-wage labor provided by black sharecroppers and tenants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z With his face pressed close to mine, I could hear his labored breathing in my ear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A reminder of how much they profited from her labor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence exploited to the limit the free labor of graduate students, an important key to low-cost operation of the enormous piece of capital equipment he was erecting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Overwhelming evidence of continuing atrocities inside the North’s labor camps has done little to rouse the South Korean public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Moving together in a perfect rhythm, without a word, hour after hour, he fell into a union with her which took the pain from his labor. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The captain saw a ship breaker, tattooed with work stamps and scarred with hard labor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Columbus was happy to make the Indians he met his slaves, a pool of free manual labor. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z There was too much physical pleasure in the labor. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At a time when bread cost a quarterpenny a loaf, the value of my mother’s daily labor—by King Edward’s royal decree—was a penny each day; mine, but a farthing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Estha could see nothing, but he could hear the sound of rasping, labored breathing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the throes of labor she had also screamed liar and pleaded for her mother to help her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Soldiers came, dragged them off. A labor camp in Germany. Working for Hitler now, and the farm going to the devil.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Every small effort at hygiene was magnified by hours of labor spent procuring the simplest elements: water, heat, anything that might pass for disinfectant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To resupply themselves with labor, the Spaniards began importing slaves from Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She seems grayer, her movements older and labored. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Time was unorganized except for the communal work, field labor, gardening, woodcutting, maintenance, for which transients such as myself were called on by whatever group most needed a hand. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Never in the history of politics has there been such a nefarious lobby as labored to block the ratification in Nashville,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A Jew climbing into a truck during a forced labor roundup is kicked by a German soldier, to the delight of other soldiers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z To force traders to pay, North Korean security forces invented a new twist on labor camps of the sort that Shin was born in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But mine managers refused to acknowledge that the miners had the right to join a labor union. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z When my mother was pregnant, right up until the time of labor, she would go out and do chores. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z We started walking toward the labor camp, following the same route we had taken that morning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z While states in the North abolished it, the South considered slave labor to be essential to its economic success. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was little choice, as Her Highness Rachel is above manual labor, and Ruth May beneath it so to speak, so Leah and I were considered by our mother, by default, disposed for her errands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He told no one that he was an escapee from a political labor camp, fearing that it might tempt someone to turn him over to the police. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “And you, too, have failed. But, since your journey was the longer, I ask you which of us wasted more of his labor and pains?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The “eating problem,” as it’s often called in North Korea, is not confined to labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We trudged from the train station to Schindler's relocated labor camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A half an hour or so of Web research revealed an agreeably tight labor market, with entry-level jobs advertised at $8 an hour or more and studio apartments for $400 or less. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung living among these who labored at feasting others, heard strange things of which he took little heed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Nazis didn’t sell food in the labor camp, of course, but there were ways to buy food smuggled in from the outside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But he’d had enough left over to set himself up as a labor broker selling slots into the very heavy crews that he’d escaped. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z My physical labor just meant the suit didn't have to heat itself as much. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But his eyes were bloodshot and he was pacing like a man whose wife is in labor. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z There was a roaring in Lee’s ears that had nothing to do with the conflagration in the forest below, or with the laboring drone of the zeppelin trying to rise again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She is told that she is still in early labor, three centimeters dilated, beginning to efface. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These women spent their days in the steady labors of planting, digging, and pounding manioc, though the dreamy way they moved through that work made it seem entirely separate from any end product. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a pause, and the sound of my labored breath fills my ears, heartbeat keeping time to the seconds ticking by. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “With my honest labor, one by one, just as you saved yourselves.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He still secretly supported labor unions and workers' rights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Twice the midwife refused to come to laboring mothers who had nothing to pay, and so the unfortunate women had to bring forth their babies with none but a neighbor to help. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The lengthy rest breaks were well distributed throughout the shift, arranged according to a labor theorist often quoted by the foremen and managers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The feast took precedence, unless you had a pass to go into town to sell crafts or had hired yourself out for day labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “My mother and brother are in a labor camp there. That’s why I’m raising my little sister.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Besides assisting with his legs and feet, Grandma labored on his head, neck, shoulders, back, arms, hands, chest, and abdomen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Quentin had labored over a way to test our powder all week and proudly presented his plan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Golden Rule was a fiercely nonunion shop—which would, over the next few years, find itself at the center of a citywide boycott and labor battle—and as a result wages were low. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Since things were not going well financially, the labor was paid less than the minimum rates specified by the Trade Union. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer needed to pick cotton in the fields or labor in factories, lower-class black men were hauled off to prison in droves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The next day he would be flying: he never should have taken the job; it was too simple to be worth his labors. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a long, difficult labor for a fifth baby, and I was born at 12:35 p.m. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Though he had taken no rest nor a morsel of food, all through the ninth day Tehlu labored. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was clearly in labor, and they had to bring her back to the midwife, to the safety of their own home. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The gentle sounds of water cascading from the fountain reminded me of the creek that ran behind our cabin in the cotton labor camp in Corcoran. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A farm of corn and soybeans doesn’t require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm full of different kinds of crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Bigger, did any white people ever talk to you about labor unions?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They pressed on, urging the last strength from the laboring horses, until they were obliged to halt for breath. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z At the time this book went to print, thirteen million American children were living in poverty, some half million of whom labor in the fields that grow America’s food. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The winter became a crucible for American labor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I would have to labor to surprise him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But except for the quiet snuffling of the children, a man’s persistent hacking cough, and Rachel’s labored breathing, no one made a sound. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Morris was a Lawrence fan who labored ceaselessly to solicit donations for the Rad Lab from his circle of distinguished friends. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Doli’s shaggy pony labored through the trees; the bard had ridden his own mount into a lather. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He'd never have to wait in one of several groups afterward, unsure which groups would return home and which group would be sent off to the so- called "labor camps." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The water in the skins was two months stale, and besides, he’d gotten used to the labor—which involved an ironwood mallet and pounding stakes deep into the sand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Why was this man sent to a Turkish labor camp? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z From that day on, for the next ten years, while we traveled from place to place throughout California, following the crops and living in migrant labor camps, I feared being caught by the Border Patrol. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Ail you could hear for a moment was labored breathing, carbonated bubbles going berserk in two dozen beer bellies, the beer coolers humming, and the ice machine tumbling chunks into its aluminum trough. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the afternoon that Lucia’s labor pains started, Sissy went home and got into bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of turning back after all this labor was more than I could bear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z "Business before pleasure is always a good rule, whoever you are. Some day the rule shall be business with pleasure, for the joy of labor shall have been restored. Sit down." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked and thrashed and stomped, but his boots were thick—no match for my shoes’ soft soles—and his muscles were like rocks after decades of hard labor against the earth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days, the ironbam did not work mines; that was labor for the captives brought back from the hostings, and so too the sorry business of farming and tending goats and sheep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The state of Mississippi eventually moved from hiring convict labor to organizing its own convict labor camp, known as Parchman Farm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I said softly, “Sir, I labored for—” “The common man likes a story,” declared Sharpe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Nothing could hasten more the progress of these reflections & sentiments which are secretly undermining the institution which this mistaken zeal is laboring to secure agst. the most distant approach of danger.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It helped to break down global regionalism, created a more seamless global commercial network, and made it simple and almost free to move digitized labor—service jobs and knowledge work—to lower-cost countries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z We hoisted Gau into the rear of the helicopter, and the machine labored tentatively into the air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The ropes tightened; the steeds labored; Taran heaved and tugged at the immovable cauldron. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Imperial guards labor to bring out massive gold-framed portraits of the princess the size of wall tapestries. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The seventh labor was to go to Crete and fetch from there the beautiful savage bull that Poseidon had given Minos. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced up briefly and scowled again before turning back to whatever verse he was laboring over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That was not because chiefdoms were more kindly disposed toward defeated enemies but because the greater economic specialization of states, with more mass production and more public works, provided more uses for slave labor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "I'm a day laborer . . ." ". . . A day laborer, you heard him, but look at his stuff strewn like chitterlings in the snow . . . Where has all his labor gone? Is he lying?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of those best fitted to develop natural controls and assist in putting them into effect have been too busy laboring in the more exciting vineyards of chemical control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Word had spread that Mrs. Cybulskis had gone into labor, and everyone saw it as a good sign that their First Annual Homecoming Celebration would also be welcoming a new life. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z At least she had no freckles to conceal or soften, and that surely saved labor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Everyone knew the Zeitouns, all of them hardworking and quick, and they all knew Abdulrahman, the eighth-born, a young man who wanted to know everything and who feared no kind of labor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Whenever there was a problem—a labor dispute with the Sherpas, a medical emergency, a critical decision about climbing strategy—people trudged over to our mess tent to seek Hall’s advice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Among the loveliest was the Temple of Thakra, at which a dozen master sculptors had labored for forty years, two of them going blind in the process. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There is no greater antidote to the public cynicism about the press than seeing the labor and thought and scrupulous care that go into producing a masterful piece of journalism. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Emily was in the advanced stages of labor when Mother realized she needed a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The mare, brought back from temporary paralysis by Smith’s exhaustive labors, moved stiffly and hesitantly through an easy canter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She would sit in the kitchen, cold with rage and staring at the turkey, which, since Frank always bought them unplucked and with the head on, would cost her hours of exasperating, bloody labor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I only survived because I was on a good assignment, like you—not hard labor hauling stones or digging ditches in the snow. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They knew the techniques of using pulleys and tackle, and presently one suggested a way of lifting Mary easily into the canopy so as to save her the dangerous labor of climbing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the skilled butchers were now a small part of a huge, mostly unskilled labor pool. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z With much labor the companions managed to raise the heavy Crochan and carry it from the chicken roost. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The Adjutant commanded those of us who labored provisioning to pull back to Cambridge. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Aunt Ophelia said she had been in labor for thirty-one hours with Nina. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We labored four miles up and over Blood Mountain—at 4,461 feet the highest and toughest eminence on the trail in Georgia—then began a steep and exciting two-mile descent towards Neels Gap. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Tell him we will work for them and we will provide good labor, but we are not yet ready to sign,” said Mr. Lukas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z With Geak toddling after us, Chou and I and the other children work in the gardens and do menial labor in the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As midnight neared, however, my mother, Mary Hoge, went into labor. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z This guard tower and the electrified harhed-wire fence at Auschwitz were typical of towers and fences at all the concentration and labor camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The temple was only the second built in Utah, constructed by volunteer labor over seven years starting in 1877. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A second agreement in 1986 committed China to sending North Korean defectors back home, where they often face arrest, torture, and months or years of forced labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The reverend nodded, adding that Clarkebury students were required to do manual labor after school hours, and he would arrange for me to work in his garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Boys, boys, boys! Hasn’t anyone told you labor is shared equally among equals? If one person has to walk, everyone has to.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Along an unused railway spur, four workmen labored in the shadowy red heat, setting up a platform and steel launchers for the evening fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She had a predilection for broad shoulders and big hands, as did Old Randall, although the master and his slave had different sorts of labor in mind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the city’s richest clubs, industrialists gathered to toast the fact that Carter Henry Harrison, whom they viewed as overly sympathetic to organized labor, had lost to Hempstead Washburne, a Republican. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The water helped him, though his breath was still labored. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “The first labor is usually protracted,” the nurse said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He looked down at his hands, which were covered in scratches and blood, his fingernails torn and ragged, aching from the labor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I loved any subject that involved writing and labored through precalc. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By the time it had done so, the American effort had been laboring for nearly two years without reaching a conclusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Charles, beside me, stood out sharp and almost hyper-realistic with his ruddy cheeks and labored breaths but further down, Henry had become a wraith, his large form light and strangely insubstantial in the mist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My breathing labored as I struggled to push on with the Operation Save Fig bike-a-thon. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask: why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, I heard my father speak to my teacher and felt ashamed of his labored, accented words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The days between Christmas and New Year’s day are allowed as holidays; and, accordingly, we were not required to perform any labor, more than to feed and take care of the stock. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z The ruling class paid African labor a subsistence wage and then added value to the cost of the goods, which they retained for themselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He, David, and Pesza had been ordered to report immediately to the Płaszów labor camp, about two and a half miles from the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Son, have you been studying wholeheartedly? This scholarship is a chance to have a different kind of future. A life of hard labor—is that what you want? For your hands to look like this?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He was in his early twenties and his hands were calloused and hard from labor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Walt and Billie had both known poverty when they were young and after struggling to rise above it saw nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of their labor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So I’m taking a few days off from heavy labor. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his Brethren labored at the Command of a white Man in dark Duck who pointed with a Cane. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Sharpe was sufficiently canny to see that Bono attempted to direct his attention elsewhere, towards the cook, who was laboring over beets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And, turning to me: “Now. Let us begin.” or the next several hours of that day I labored over a Greek legal dispute regarding the ownership of twenty-five oxen ravaged by the mange. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Xan spent well over half a day just trying to find it, and once she did, it was a full hour of hard labor just to dislodge the lattice of persistent ivy. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z 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 The presidential election of 1932 sparked a major turning point for American labor unions, bringing pro-labor president Franklin D. Roosevelt into office in 1933, along with a Congress sympathetic to labor. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But I see now how sedulously she labored to create her illusion; for she knew it should protect me only so long as I believed it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The work she had done in hotels was play compared to the terrible labors she had performed as a slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As a carpenter, Southside wasn’t allowed to work for the larger construction firms that offered steady pay on long-term projects, given that he couldn’t join a labor union. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As he entered his teens, Johnny began haunting local stables, trading his labor for a chance to ride. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I came to tell you that the Germans are taking a thousand of us away. The younger men. To work in a labor camp.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Joe’s old Franklin labored and coughed and wheezed, crawling up the long, steep ascent to Blewett Pass, high in the Cascade Mountains. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For the first time in his life, Shin wasn’t expected to do any physical labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Besides “suspect” religions, the immigrants brought with them a hunger for improved living standards, an animus against oppressive authority, and a history of collective action, particularly in labor unions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Don- ner says he will save labor costs and increase profits. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Already Johnny was so useful at his bench he could never be spared for such labor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He informed him of the complaints he had received from the labor as well as from the other assistant managers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Seattle General Strike was the first major labor walkout in a year that would see an almost continuous stream of labor disputes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the dark I have to hold it centimeters from my nose, laboring over every letter. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Jorge worked the fields and did laboring jobs just like I did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 But the soldiers did not seem interested in anything except their labor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Settlers who used the labor of enslaved Africans wanted limitless land for growing cash crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They might imprison people who hide Jews, or send them to labor camps. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z 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 Chloroform, which had been discovered in 1831, had begun to be used to relieve labor pains a few years earlier. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She hopes his labor doesn’t start on the Typhoon Terror. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z For more than a week, I knew he had been laboring over nails to turn them into fish hooks. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor’s office. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In early 1977, the authorities announced the end of manual labor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They picked grapes and cotton and lived in labor camps similar to the ones we lived in, like Tent City in Santa Maria. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They were surrounded by Indians, and it would cost them too much in time and physical labor. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “My father is dead, and my mother is in a labor camp in Salzburg.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We called for an end to child labor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We left him once more, called to labor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Now it is a divisive national issue, pitting those who welcome cheap labor against those with concerns about border security and the cost of providing social services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They might keep him for years in solitary confinement; they might send him to a labor camp; they might release him for a while, as they sometimes did. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And off the midwife ran, up to the manor where warm fires blazed and the laboring mother was soothed with wine and syrups and kind words. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The success of these hortatory campaigns has been mixed, at best, especially when it comes to the government’s highly unpopular efforts to lure city-bred people into back-breaking farm labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I missed the fresh air and the scent of wood from the labor camp. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He would call pretty women who worked in the factory to his room, and on the pretext of lecturing them on labor rights and trade union law, flirt with them outrageously. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Most Scholars who aren’t enslaved work menial jobs—as farmhands or cleaners or stevedores—backbreaking labor for which they’re paid next to nothing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then she took out the money she had accumulated over long years of hard labor, made some arrangements with her customers, and undertook the enlargement of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Lightning lit up the room, empty but for Alyce under the stairs and the woman, in tears, in pain, in labor, and none to help. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Zannikos’s partners suspected he had sided with the labor group, he said, and started to criticize his work unfairly. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was the first appearance of Lawrence’s method for building the world’s first great Big Science laboratory: the remorseless exploitation of cheap graduate-student labor, a resource he would soon have in surfeit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And of those who labor and of those who—one word—love. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I go upstairs to notify Garrett that he won’t be put up for adoption, sent to a forced labor camp, or cooked into meat pies—but he’s nowhere to be found. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z No morning breezes cooled Lupita as she labored in the same field as the day before. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The crew staggered like dead men, utterly beaten from their labors, trying to pitch tents so they could crawl in to sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But she could hear only their labored breathing and the stamping of their feet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They were addressed to government officials: the attorney general and the secretary of labor of the United States; a Supreme Court justice; and two of the nation’s leading financiers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The men who inhabited the first light at Hobie’s, who drank coffee and exchanged tales until the stores were opened and the call to labor was sounded, began to fill up the restaurant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “That would reduce it to labor, and they will not labor if they can help it. Nor will I.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the last hundred years, there has been a steady series of events on the labor front. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly complemented each other,” Stanton said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Allyssa, twelve, a huge fan of music, composed an original piece about Joe Hill, the same labor activist who Taylor and Jayme had done their project on a few years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I received further reprimands for my labored and deliberate service, or, as he called it, my sloth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Still, Shin understood that he was only welcome in the farmer’s house because he was cheap labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The wages those Mexicans received for their labor were only a measure of their disadvantaged condition. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1904 he was married, had a newborn son, and was laboring in the patent office—hardly the path to greatness. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "I have labored long to make it so. I am glad the Hand is pleased." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That word evoked fear ever since the immigration raid in Tent City, a labor camp in Santa Maria where we sometimes lived. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We had been living in a farm labor camp in Santa Rosa. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z No long hours of labor that did little but line the pockets of Devlin and Burton. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Turns out field labor and a restricted diet are better than fat camp. Zu can back me up on this one.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Afterward he had taken the heads of every stonemason, woodworker, and builder who had labored on it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A few days before Christmas, Papa decided to move from the cotton labor camp in Corcoran and look for work elsewhere. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor—it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The previous year, he had assumed command of construction of the Pentagon, then beleaguered by labor problems, material shortages, cost overruns, and miserable work conditions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was also the hard labor and jail time, punishments that were even more brutal here than back in Romania. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In Boston, we should not undertake such labor on the Sabbath. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Traders avoided a grisly trip to a labor camp only by paying hard currency bribes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Hatun described his time laboring on the roads and bridges, and how some of the men had been hard-working while others were lazy. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Historically the inmates were required to do backbreaking labor, including picking cotton, for about four cents an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z With all the stress in her life, she had to be rushed to the hospital in premature labor. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But Dasch knew that any little slipup, such as revealing that he had been a member of a labor union, would mean "curtains." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Kelley was assigned to his cell twelve hours a day, and taken out for twelve-hour work shifts, building fortifications and doing other heavy manual labor. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The home owners aren’t going to thank us for a job well done, and God knows, people on the street aren’t going to hail us as heroines of proletarian labor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Suffragists saw the vote as a way they could make the world a better place by using it to increase wages, eliminate child labor, and reduce government corruption. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “He said to Moses, ‘You have toiled and labored, now you are worthy of rest.’” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He scowled at the question of how a person might find out who was in which labor camp. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Though newly arrived Mexicans often work in industries that rely on cheap labor, like restaurants and construction, they rarely organize. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The Nazis used Jewish men as forced labor to aid the war effort. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Yossarian tried paying no attention to him and limped wearily to his cot and sat down with a labored, drawn-out grunt. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Thank you,” I say, gloomily, as if I’ve just signed up for hard labor. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Enemies in a former Earth Age labored side by side as colleagues and fellow citizens. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Many Irish immigrants remained mired in poverty, relying on sporadic day labor to keep them afloat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There's a plan to save me, and the physical labor is making me sleep wonderfully. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In protest, the largest labor rally in US history takes place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Juanita got the words out between labored breaths, and I knew what she was talking about. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I averted my head and continued my labor, and directly he walked away without speaking. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For another two months he didn't have the strength and stamina to do any of the strenuous physical labor his previous jobs required. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Still, the story had been vetted and rang true to survivors of other labor camps, to scholars, to human rights advocates, and to the South Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When new leadership in Seoul cut off the free fertilizer in 2008, North Korea tried to do nationally what it has been doing for decades in its labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sheep became bumpily sheathed with the stuff so that they looked like big ambulating wasp nests; birds, having absorbed the zoquete in their feathers, labored erratically through the air, almost unable to fly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So I went to the labor office in the city hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z As he labored home last, he heard tittering. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Invited next to join the March were four famous white public figures: one Catholic, one Jew, one Protestant, and one labor boss. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He would watch and know precisely when a ewe was starting labor—had a wonderful knowledge of sheep—but could barely move. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We were sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labor, but the sentence was suspended for two years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His return to hard labor, long hours, and skimpy meals at school made him almost insanely hungry. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Z would rather sleep in a ditch than become slave labor for anyone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Demand for labor was high, and Johannesburg became a magnet for Africans from the countryside seeking work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Today as we labor in the cold sunshine, Therese pulls her threadbare cloak tight about her thin body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Tomorrow’s one year since you went into labor. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There was left in the house, then, none but the uncle and his wife and son and Ching and the laboring men, besides Wang Lung and his youngest son and the fool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Girl, please. I went to class in labor with you,” she says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I don’t want to go into another home where I’m treated like a servant, tolerated only for the labor I can provide. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And since it was at some distance from the village, I was able to remain hidden from those who had already gone to their daily labor. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z On the way, I met Miguelito, who lived in the same labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The young lawyer was on civil, if not close, terms with Durham’s older black leaders, but he labored under no illusions about their willingness to take bold action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By early evening the residents gathered to admire the day’s labors. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “It is Labor Day and grilling in this heat would certainly qualify as labor.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mass production, cheap labor, and big capital were the watchwords of the day now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was still penniless and desperate, and he knew that to make something of his idea was going to require years of backbreaking labor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, skilled labor has gone from being heavily Democratic to almost evenly split. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Despite Marx & Haas Clothing Company’s concessions to the labor union, the workrooms were crowded and the air was filthy. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z In 1950, nearly three in five black women in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital city, worked as maids for white families, and almost three-quarters of employed black men mowed lawns and did other kinds of unskilled labor. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z 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 Second, my contact with the labor movement and its ideology made me see Bigger clearly and feel what he meant. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The fair’s capitulation pumped steam into America’s—and Chicago’s—already-boiling labor movement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For an hour they labored to keep the water from capsizing the Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Dark skin was for my mother the most important symbol of a life of oppressive labor and poverty. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For whatever the outcome of our labors in any particular case, we shall certainly learn a great deal about works of art in the process. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The sixth labor, was to drive away the Stymphalian birds, which were a plague to the people of Stymphalus because of their enormous numbers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Colored labor had erected every house on the park, laid the stones in the fountain and the paving of the walkways. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Sorry, but even if no Africans had been sold by other Africans, the transatlantic slave trade would still have happened. It was a European enterprise. It was about Europeans looking for labor for their plantations.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think we go to labor camps if we fail? June, the only labor camps are the morgues in hospital basements.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He will go back to the labor department. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She settled into a tub of hot water minutes before a violent labor began. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Most of the stories under those headlines paid scant heed to Shady’s years of grueling labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sitting in our hut, he slouches into the bamboo walls and his breath sounds labored and exhausted with each word. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The task was a formidable one, but the dwarf labored at it every day, scratching away as best he could as he sat cross-legged on the cabin roof. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Twenty-four hours is a long labor for a small fourth child. Any complications?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z |
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