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2 unusual facts about Laborer


Effective unemployment rate

The unemployment rate announced by United States Department of Labor does not include those too discouraged to look for work any longer or those part-time workers that are working fewer hours than they would like.

Laborer's Love

In 2007, Australian ensemble Blue Grassy Knoll wrote a new score to Labourer's Love, and performed it live in Shanghai and Beijing as part of the Australian Theatre Festival.


Antoni Gawryłkiewicz

During World War II, 18-year-old Gawryłkiewicz lived in the village of Korkuciany in Eastern Poland where he worked as laborer on a farm of Kazimierz Korkucz and his mother.

Charles Edwin Wilbour

He then became a co-laborer with Heinrich Karl Brugsch and Gaston Camille Charles Maspero in the field of Egyptology, accompanying the latter on five winter exploring expeditions up the Nile.

Copetown, Ontario

Local laborer and railway worker Donald Duncan was killed after coming into contact with the bridge while on top of a Great Western Railway caboose.

Donald Pike

Pike dropped out of school and left home at age 14 to live in a boarding house while continuing to work as a farm laborer, then as a stock boy in a department store and, at one point, as a Western Union messenger boy.

Donald Ray Pollock

Born in 1954 and raised in Knockemstiff, Ohio, Pollock has lived his entire adult life in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he worked at the Mead Paper Mill as a laborer and truck driver until age 50, when he enrolled in the English program at Ohio State University.

Douglas Thayer

Thayer’s early work experience included helper on a uranium drill rig, construction laborer, railroad section hand, janitor, restaurant dishwasher, insurance salesman, and seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park.

Elijah Ngurare

While studying in Ohio, he spent his summers in New Mexico and Texas, working as a counselor at Camp Balcones Springs near Austin, Texas, as a laborer on road construction with the Armstrong Construction Company, and as a dishwasher at Taco Bell, where he was named Employee of the Month after only two weeks.

Five Punishments

The scale of the remittance payments can be gauged from the fact that at the time of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736–1795 CE), the average wage of a construction laborer in Zhili Province was 0.72 wén or 0.6 troy ounces of silver per day.

Frank Bates

In September 1918, Bates was living in Cincinnati, Ohio, and working as a laborer for H. E. Culberson in Mingo Junction, Ohio.

Gerard von Brucken Fock

He tried for a couple of days to work as a farm laborer on the farm of his wife's uncle near Kruiningen, but on his first attempt to use the scythe he cut himself in the fingers.

Hamo Thornycroft

These included Lot's Wife (1878), Artemis and her Hound (1880 plaster, 1882 marble), the Homeric bowman Teucer (1881 plaster, 1882 bronze), and the Mower (1884 plaster, 1894 bronze), arguably the first life-size freestanding statue of a contemporary laborer in 19th-century sculpture.

Henry Noll

In Taylor's telling, which was "frankly insulting" (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission), 'Schmidt' is a dim-witted but outstanding laborer with a heavy German accent.

Howes Brothers

Growing up in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the oldest brother, Alvah, born 1853, was the first to take up photography sometime in the mid-1880s after time spent as a farm laborer.

Joe P. Martinez

In 1927, his father, who was an agricultural laborer, decided to move from Taos, New Mexico to Ault, Colorado.

Joseph Zerilli

Working as a laborer with the Detroit Gas Company, Zerilli founded the Purple Gang with William Joseph "Bugs Bill" Bernstein, Abe Bernstein, Harry Fleisher, and Louis Fleisher at the onset of Prohibition.

Josiah Henson

Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Ontario, Canada, in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County.

Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind

The film chronicles the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican national who emigrated to the United States as a laborer in 1917 to then became the leader of the largest black organization in history.

Margaret Maher

Margaret's brother-in-law Tom Kelley, a laborer, bought property from Emily Dickinson's father, Edward, in October 1864, that Tom had been leasing for his young family and Maher in-laws.

Mykola Khvylovy

Born as Mykola Fitilyov in Trostyanets, Kharkov Governorate to a Russian laborer father and Ukrainian schoolteacher mother, Khvylovy joined the Communist Party in 1919.

Olav Kringen

He was born at a croft in Sel, and was a manual laborer in Norway before emigrating to the United States in 1887.

Robert Appelbaum

He has worked as a steel mill laborer, a director of a Berlitz School of Languages, an art dealer, and a limousine driver as well as teacher, writer, and editor.

Robert Charles Riots

The Robert Charles Riots of 1900 were sparked after African American laborer Robert Charles shot a white police officer which led to a manhunt.

Robert Filliou

In 1947, Filliou traveled to the United States and work as a laborer for Coca-Cola in Los Angeles and achieved a masters in economics.

Terramatta

It is the story of The Twentieth Century told by a last, and is inspired by the Terra Matta, a memoir published by Einaudi in 2007, written in approximate Italian by Vincenzo Rabito (class 1899), a former laborer and Sicilian worker semi-literate but of great narrative ability, who attended the world War I and African adventure (in Ogaden).

Terry Mulder

Mulder was born in Colac, and attended Trinity College, but did not complete high school and began working as a laborer.

Vancroft

Also on the property are a pergola, a club house or retreat house, spring house, race track, grotto, farm manager's house, two farm laborer's residences, mill, barn, and "the Apple House." The property was purchased by the Catholic Knights of St. George and operated as a home for the aged.

Victor Perez

Perez was denounced to the Occupation authorities and arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and detained in the Drancy internment camp before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz subcamp to serve as a slave laborer for I.G. Farben at the Buna-Werke.

Walter Wyman

The Service first became involved in the situation in 1900 when MHS physician Joseph J. Kinyoun, stationed in San Francisco, confirmed by bacteriological analysis that the death of a laborer in the city's Chinatown section was due to bubonic plague.


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