10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ODD-JOBMEN»
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1
The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
These seventeenth-century schoolmaster- odd-jobmen never enjoyed very much
esteem; but at least people were not afraid of them in the way they were of some
solitary shepherds or black-faced charcoal-burners. Shepherds The figure of ...
2
The Making of a Chinese City: History and Historiography in ...
Lower-quality food was provided for the ordinary staff, trainees and odd-jobmen,
and they were given rice and one dish from the communal pot. Piece-work
laborers ate their own food in a separate canteen, the company providing them
with ...
3
Troubled Waters: Origins of the 1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in ...
14 According to some estimates, perhaps one-half to three-quarters of all Jews
had no definite occupations. They lived as petty brokers, hucksters, and odd-
jobmen, earning what little they could, however they could. The figures listed
above ...
4
The Accumulation of Capital
themselves with tiny quantities of capital (say as shoe-blacks and pedlars) or by
selling their services direct to consumers (as domestic servants, porters, odd-
jobmen, etc.). This kind of occupation is usually described as disguised ...
Later, in one of the long hothouses built against the brick walls of the kitchen
garden, I struck up a conversation with William Hazel, the gardener who now
looks after Somerleyton with the help of several odd-jobmen. When he realized
where I ...
6
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Disguised unemployment on a significant scale is usually attributed to the
existence of an informal labor market, where redundant workers either seek
forms of self-employment or sell their services as domestic servants, odd jobmen,
porters, ...
7
Towards human work: solutions to problems in occupational ...
The comparison of the morbidity of three kinds of diseases between medical staff
and odd-jobmen (4) Figure 2 shows that the morbidity of diseases of the
circulatory system among middle rank medical staff was highest (29.2%), the
morbidity ...
Masaharu Kumashiro, E. D. Megaw,
1991
8
China Statistical Yearbook
... odd- jobmen (workshop odd-jobmen related to production are regarded as
workers, and are not included in supporting personnel); and other personnel for
daily life welfare. Of these, personnel in social service bodies refers to persons ...
9
Statistical Yearbook of China 1986
... centre); guards and firemen; personnel for housing maintenance; odd-jobmen (
workshop odd-jobmen related to production are regarded as workers, and are
not included in supporting personnel) and other personnel for daily life welfare.
10
Jerusalem: rebirth of a city
There were also, among the Ashkenazi Jews, 215 families whose livelihood
came from labouring, some as porters, others as day labourers, twenty-five as '
regular beggars' and 120 as 'odd-jobmen or idlers, as the case may be'. Luncz
pointed ...