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Word: laborer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...galaxy of left-wing causes has dissipated: Backers of affirmative action and abortion rights, gay activists and Greens, feminists and labor leaders have little to say to each other, still less to do for one another...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: Berkeley's Lesson For the Left | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...days later, Debra Barton went to Alabama to spend Labor Day weekend with her mother in a lakeside trailer. Barton stayed home with their children Mychelle and Matthew--or at least that was what he told the authorities. By the end of the weekend, the bodies of Debra Barton and her mother Eloise Spivey were found in a trailer, hacked to death by an axlike tool that police never recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

What does it take to become an outlaw in China? Promote democracy, organize an illicit labor union--or spend an early-morning hour in a park moving your hands around the shape of an imaginary wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Falun Gong | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...labor dispute first began when Everett's workers started working at Harvard and learned that unionized painters working on the same projects were earning additional benefits and between $5 and $8 more per hour, according to Laughlin. After learning of the wage disparity, all 24 of the workers signed cards indicating that they wanted to join a union themselves...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Painters Strike For Union Recognition | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Harvard officials responded by claiming that the University is not permitted to intervene in a private labor dispute between another firm and its employees...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Painters Strike For Union Recognition | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

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