But still greater quantities are required for alkalis and other chemicals, the making of which is the chief occupation of the workpeople of Runcorn and Weston Point.
The workpeople did not like the new machines, for often a number of people were thrown out of work by them, and frequently the new spinning and weaving-frames of the inventors were wrecked by a furious mob.
The looms were idle, and thousands of workpeople were thrown out of employment in Stockport, Stalybridge, and the other towns and villages which depended for their daily bread on a constant supply of the raw material.
With his workpeople his relations were the most friendly, and he was as active as he had ever been before in trying to better their condition.
Such profit as remained was then divided into two equal parts, one of which went to the employers, while the other was divided among the workpeople in proportion to the amounts of wages which they had received during the year.
We see then that, when a rich person decides how to spend his money he is deciding not how many moreworkpeople shall be set to work, but what kind of work they shall do.
Not only does this collapse ruin many of the subscribers to these schemes, but it presently causes workpeople to be thrown out of employment.
He thinks most young workpeople in New York do not live at home, and considers obedience to parents and observance of the Sabbath the foundation of success in life.
Our informant uses no artificial light on the premises, and when the daylight fails, hisworkpeople leave off labor.
It is a business which is carried on without the necessity of assembling great numbers of workpeople in one place, or taking women from their homes, and thereby breaking the bonds of family union.
There the workpeople are all separated and classified according to age and sex, and marshaled like soldiers.
We are getting workpeople from Paris and renovating everything.
Philippe has spent the morning rushing about among the various shops and workpeople who are to undertake the task of my metamorphosis.
The workpeople earn from five shillings per week--the wages of a woman or girl--to fifty shillings per week, the wages of a large cable maker.
There are about 200 workpeople employed, many with consummate skill and intelligence, as may be assumed from the precise and highly finished work in which they are engaged.
It was teaching the workpeople how to become masters, said they.
It was taking advantage of their workpeople being almost starved; but they would starve entirely rather than come into such terms.
The health of workpeople in the Potteries was the subject of a special inquiry by a scientific committee in 1893.
With this proviso, compulsory enforcement of a minimum could also be extended to the workpeople covered by Whitley Councils.
Immediately after this the great bell was rung for the Missa familiaris, or early Mass, chiefly intended for the servants and workpeople of the establishment.
And you need not be afraid of theworkpeople either.
He had scarcely done so when a man came from the upper warehouse, a room whence silk--both warp and woof--was given out to the workpeople to be wound on bobbins or spread into the web before it was fixed in the loom.
We venture to express the hope that some amendment of the law may be made so as to extend the protection of the Truck Act to a class of workpeople indistinguishable from those already within its provisions.
He was sure that there was no chance of a renewal of the attack by the workpeople near, but an assault might be again organized by parties from a distance.
Only with those who don't know him," Ned replied; "his workpeople say he is the worst master and the biggest tyrant in the district.
The feeling of gratitude and respect with which Ned was regarded by the workpeople of his district, owing to his action regarding the hand frames, did something toward lightening the load caused by the suspicion which still rested upon him.
Arms were distributed to the workpeople and servants, the drawbridges were raised, the two cannons were loaded with grape, and the chateau was transformed into a fortress.
The wages of theworkpeople in the silk-throwing mills of Italy are about one half of their wages in Manchester; but this difference is much more than counterbalanced by the protecting duty of 2s.
Marine de Rio, where the workpeople live, and the mineral is kept in store.
Ought the State, however, to fix a legal minimum of wages for the protection of the exceptional groups of workpeople to whose situation such a measure might have relation?
In some branches of industry many new improvements remain unused because the workpeople are too ignorant to work them properly.
Even a general commercial crisis which throws the workpeople of many trades idle, makes those of others busy.
It improved the efficiency of the workpeople to the degree where, in concert with improvements in the management, also due to the shortening of the day, the product of ten hours in Massachusetts was equal to the product of eleven elsewhere.
I know it would be better for you to be loved by your workpeople than to be hated by them, and I am sure that kindness is more likely to win their regard than pride.
On this day the Fieldhead tenantry dine together; the Hollow's Mill workpeople will be assembled for a like festal purpose; the schools have a grand treat.
Not being a native, nor for any length of time a resident of the neighbourhood, he did not sufficiently care when the new inventions threw the old workpeople out of employ.
And while making the alterations necessary for the purpose, the workpeople discovered hidden under a floor the skeleton of a young woman!
Higher wages were given elsewhere, and the workpeople spoke sullenly among themselves of going in quest of better pay and fairer treatment.
Some of his workpeople had struck for increased wages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "workpeople" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
