Milkman says that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.

米尔克曼说这些业余工作是工人们在工厂忍受重复的装配线工作所带来的屈辱之后，为恢复尊严所做的努力。

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The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman".

家里日益贫困的生活迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，在沃伦的鞋油仓库工作。这是一家鞋油厂，那里工作的男孩嘲笑他是“年轻的绅士”。

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I wish I could go to work in a factory, nine to five.

我要是能在一家工厂朝九晚五地上班就好了。

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Still, an investigation found that the factory violated Nike's code of conduct, prompting the company to work with factory management on a "remediation plan to help avoid these issues from occurring again in the future, " she says.

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Following the holiday last year, fewer people than usual returned to work at the factory Jordache Ltd. uses to make outerwear and activewear.

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In other words, they should have done something- work in a factory to learn productivity, work at a gas station to understand customer service, etc.

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