Word: joblessness
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...stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless, and 25% of those on the land are "underemployed...
...introduction that recalls the days when he was jobless and neither fudge nor genius seemed salable, Greene says that the book is about the injustice of man's justice. It is, but Greene was Greene even then-and his real interest was the vice of man's virtue. Everyone works to win a reprieve for Drover, but motives are messy. His wife is honest enough to know that she could recover from her husband's execution but could not stand the 18 years of withering sexual faithfulness that would follow a jail sentence. The condemned...
...lies behind the rides, the North may believe that only evil can come of them. But surely some good is being done: penniless men are finding work. However foully Northern cities treat their Negro population, they still offer them a world of opportunity the South cannot match. And while jobless Negroes in the North will resent the jobs so ostentatiously offered the newcomers from New Orleans, most of the jobs given them so far have been positions which Northern Negroes would not have been permitted to fill. The public stir attending the migrants helps them break into Northern occupations...
...everybody is in the mood to wait. While the soccer fans rioted and tourists twisted, 1,500 jobless workers marching along Ataturk Boulevard in a procession clashed with police and army units. Dozens were arrested. The fracas emphasized anew the urgency of the workers' plea, emblazoned on their banners: "Give us fields and we will sow, give us jobs and we will work, show us the way and we will march...
...book. Generally skillful in her long treatment of Jenny Lind's American tour, which culminated in the singer's marriage to her accompanist, Author Schultz is often grossly sentimental in her account of Jenny's early life. The daughter of a debt-ridden, often jobless man named Niklas Lind, Jenny was born out of wedlock. She was discovered and sent trilling her way to fame when a passer-by who had connections at Stockholm's Royal Theater heard her singing songs...