Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] workers " in BNC.
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| 1 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 2 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |
| 3 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 4 | It is important to grasp birth control very much within the context of the particular customs and needs of groups of workers , and it is notable , for instance , that the poor and the unemployed generally had a high birthrate . |
| 5 | In the cities , the relative moderation of groups of workers such as the printers pointed the way to co-operation between the working class and progressive sections of ‘ society ’ in pressing for liberal reforms . |
| 6 | For example , types of worker resistance which derive from spontaneous , unofficial initiatives on the part of groups of workers often benefit from a degree of tacit legitimacy , in the sense that those in authority may ‘ turn a blind eye ’ to various workshop practices . |
| 7 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 8 | Management is holding a series of meetings with workers today . |
| 9 | India 's foreign-exchange reserves have been severely eroded by high oil prices and the loss of remittances from workers in Kuwait and Iraq . |
| 10 | In what ways would your reading have been altered by the following instructions : ( a ) Find out about the effects of industry on workers ' standards of living . |
| 11 | The use of force against workers , peasants , political activists , and minority nationalists simply intensified the incipient revolution and pushed all groups further to the left . |
| 12 | This could arise , for example , in researching into the voting behaviour of , say , white-collar workers , or the differential rates of absenteeism among workers within a particular plant . |
| 13 | Relation ( 1 ) shows the flow of savings from workers . |
| 14 | National Grid , Britain 's high-voltage supply company , and London Electricity say they have a code of practice for workers handling the gas . |
| 15 | That would have to , that would have to come out of any kind of interview with workers in those other groups really . |
| 16 | France , by contrast , had a smaller manufacturing base but remained self-sufficient in food so that the dramatic fall of proportion of workers in primary industries did not occur until after World War II ( fig. 1.8 ) . |
| 17 | There is a sense of being on the boundary of management vis-a-vis workers . |
| 18 | Marx 's analysis of capitalism shows that the system of exploitation of workers by capitalists appears inevitable because of a previous concentration of the means of production in the hands of the capitalists . |
| 19 | The social origin of its members , the initial preponderance of intelligentsia over workers , was utterly irrelevant . |
| 20 | With a faster rate of transfer of workers from old machines to new ones , the proportion of more modern , higher-productivity machines in use rises . |
| 21 | This produced a deep sense of betrayal amongst workers ; and the ‘ civil war , between rank-and-file workers and the official union was essentially what turned the strike into a protracted struggle . |
| 22 | One well publicized feature of harmony and cooperation in Japanese companies can be seen in the removal of the outward signs of distinction between workers , whether these are based on dress , working hours or canteen facilities . |
| 23 | Deliveries of goods would be required to take place at night , despite protests from workers and those bothered by the noise . |
| 24 | This meant a shift in the burden of taxation towards workers , reducing the extent to which their take home pay benefited from their stronger bargaining position . |
| 25 | The proposition put forward by this view is that technology shapes the problems , demands and forms of organisation of workers and it is precisely the levels of technology that vary so much between the modern , dynamic , industrial sector and traditional areas . |
| 26 | Sheer size made relations between employers and workers impersonal , facilitated the circulation of radical ideas , and generated a sense of solidarity among workers . |
| 27 | Thus under the Treaty binding provisions seek to establish freedom of movement of workers ( Arts 48 and 49 ) , freedom of establishment ( Arts 52 – 8 ) , equal pay for men and women ( Art . |
| 28 | Although the Treaty of Rome had laid down the fundamental freedom of movement of workers ( Arts 48 – 51 ) and the right of establishment in any economic activity across all member states , a succession of secondary legislation has been required to give concrete form to these principles . |
| 29 | These Committees cover vocational training , freedom of movement of workers , social security for workers , safety , hygiene and health protection , etc . |
| 30 | laws of freedom of movement between workers and Sweden is a member of the Council of Europe . |