Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] workers [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second stage emerges when the achievement of representative government , universal and equal suffrage , and free elections seems to diminish the importance of political action outside the formal institutional sphere , although in periods of crisis social movements , such as the unemployed workers ' movements or the fascist movements in some European countries , may develop . |
| 2 | In Wall Street journals now speak of an irreversible decline of the middleman — the suave dealmaker who carves a chunk out of the real workers ' profits by flitting with bright notions from door to door . |
| 3 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
| 4 | It is here that the importance of social movements becomes apparent , for such movements — whether they are large-scale and enduring , like the trade union movement , or more specific , concerned with particular issues in some historical period , like the unemployed workers ' movements of the 1930s — do not only establish , in some cases , the preconditions for the emergence or transformation of organized political formations , but also constitute an independent form of political commitment and action which is an essential , often highly effective , element in political struggles . |
| 5 | The initiative in the TUC and , increasingly , in the Labour Party passed from the miners and engineers to the general workers ' unions with less tradition of direct action and less membership participation in the making of decisions . |