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...actors, could have treated the movie as a catered summer trip to China. Instead, the genial Chaplin, a British actor who made his mark in indie films like The Birthday Party, puts up with being frozen, burned, beaten, insulted and generally treated with all the respect of a Chinese migrant worker. Roxburgh, with a sneer on his lips and murder in his dark, campy heart, all but steals the film. Yeoh's role as coproducer explains why her hair is windswept in at least 75% of the scenes. But you won't hear us complaining about that, or the fact...
Bruce Springsteen has a songbook that reads like a union membership log. He has written about cops, fire fighters, soldiers, road builders, steelworkers, factory laborers and migrant workers. Springsteen himself has held exactly one real job. For a few weeks in 1968 when he was 18, he worked as a gardener. But his gift is not horticulture. His great gift--the one that makes him the best rock 'n' roll singer of his era--is empathy. Springsteen doesn't know what a 40-hour workweek feels like, but he knows how a 40-hour workweek makes you feel...
...migrant farm workers, Gonzales grew up in a crowded two-bedroom house in Houston, TX with seven siblings...
...tends to divide the council in a negative way,” he says. “It tends to strain people’s friendships.” Barkley says he remembers a time when issues such as whether dining hall should serve grapes farmed by migrant workers dominated the council’s docket...
...time in Latin America recently, and you can see it there even more strongly. Ecuador, for instance, sends a huge portion of its workforce abroad ? it's a source of income and it also relieves their unemployment problem. They are now very worried about their migrant laborers becoming unemployed...