Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] workers " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again the phenomenon that makes this sort of unemployment involuntary is the inability of workers and employers directly to lower the real-wage rate to w * ; . |
| 2 | In 1928 Marie Stopes sent one of two horse-drawn caravans outfitted as birth control clinics into the mining areas of South Wales where the majority of workers were suffering from unemployment and reduced hours . |
| 3 | Essentially , however , I am suggesting that the majority of workers avoid this extreme rebellious position . |
| 4 | If the majority of workers could be angry ( as opposed to just the minority being ‘ rebellious ’ ) about the conditions that are inducing a sense of nothingness , and loss of self-esteem , they would have either to face their depression ( i.e. , anger turned inwards ) or face why the social structure is as it is . |
| 5 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |
| 6 | It seems clear then that ‘ for the majority of workers lifetime employment is a wishful ideal rather than an established convention ’ ( Aoki 1984 p.6 ) . |
| 7 | For , example , the majority of workers employed by Debenhams in Belfast city centre 's much hyped Castlecourt complex are women . |
| 8 | The first example describes , and because it does not comment , appears to legitimise the hierarchical organisation of labour in offices , with the majority of workers on lower pay than the minority . |
| 9 | Unless the union can provide an excludable benefit , or unless the majority of workers in the sector are committed to the trade union movement , then union existence can not be guaranteed . |
| 10 | But the dramatic , large-scale industrial developments of the nineteenth century produced a markedly different form of society where the majority of workers were often recent immigrants from all corners of the land . |
| 11 | Through these kinds of dramas ( the wage negotiation annual one ) the remainder of workers can feel that their uncomfortable feelings of anger and paranoia are being dealt with so they can continue to hold the position of withdrawal , thus avoiding the pain of their real feelings . |
| 12 | The Bolsheviks destroyed the unity of workers of different nationalities and laid the way open for national leaderships to capture ‘ their own ’ working class , when they should have defended the integrity of the former Russian empire ‘ tooth and nail ’ . |
| 13 | The Research Development as a whole is concerned with four major topics : the policies employers adopt towards the labour force ; the attitudes of workers to employment and the labour market ; changes in the household and their relationship to both paid and unpaid work ; and the impact of economic change on social integration and social stratification . |
| 14 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 15 | Some trade unions argued that free time was as important as perhaps even more important than — money in the struggle for workers ' rights . |
| 16 | The potential for misinterpretation and imperfect communication in the interactions between workers and clients is enormous , and no analysis of the effects of social work intervention can be complete without some attention to the views of those on the receiving end . |
| 17 | Less self-satisfied social reformers , while not denying improvement — in the case of the elite of workers whose relative scarcity of qualifications put them into a fairly continuous sellers ' market , the substantial improvement — gave a less rose-tinted picture : |
| 18 | The island parable focuses not upon the reactions of workers and employers to what may turn out to be imaginary variations in the real wage rate but upon the reactions of producers to variations in the prices being paid for their products . |
| 19 | It was the product of the experience of workers themselves . |
| 20 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 21 | * The UKAEA was fined £8,000 with £10,500 costs after the exposure of workers at the Harwell nuclear laboratory to radiation . |
| 22 | These were the result of spontaneous revolutionary activity from the base , which even embarrassed the union leadership , and demonstrate a high level of class consciousness among the mass of workers . |
| 23 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 24 | Better education of employers as well as employees was seen to be vital in improving the protection of workers against hepatitis B infection . |
| 25 | During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions . |
| 26 | It is true that Act 1414/1984 , while providing for administrative sanctions , does notprovide for a system of civil sanctions for the protection of workers who are wronged by failure to apply the equal treatment principle as defined by Article 3 of Act 1414/1984 and the Directive . |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the CBI , in Scotland and in the rest of the United Kingdom , is keen to see flexibility in our social standards and would not wish Scotland to be signed up to a social charter restricting the freedom of workers and employers alike , who look forward to continuing to be a magnet for inward investment from Japan and from the rest of the European Community ? |
| 28 | It recommended reducing the size of train crews , increasing wages by an average of 3-4 per cent per year over the next three years , and the payment by workers of a proportion of their health care costs . |
| 29 | In May 1920 , there was a gun battle between miners and company guards in Mingo County , caused by the eviction of workers from company houses . |
| 30 | The law gives local authorities the power to decide and they , in turn , define the kind of workers they want . |