Many were working long hours in factories and to sustain them a noon-time meal was essential.
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"Since everyone is working long hours, there is always something to do, " Crow says.
After years working long hours and raising families, it makes sense, first, to consider taking a break.
She raised two daughters while working long hours as a maid for one of Cairo's upper-class families.
The vast majority hail from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, working long hours for little pay in the construction industry.
After several years of working long hours at below-market salaries, workers want to see the fruits of their labor.
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Working hard and working long hours does not mean people are working smart.
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His goal is to restore their youthful hormone levels, drawn down by aging, years of stress and working long hours.
We're all pulled in a million different directions, working hard, working long hours, trying to do everything, be perfect parents.
"However, 90% of people were paid on time and as for staff working long hours it was entirely voluntary, " he said.
According to those who attended, Jones explained how traders must have extraordinary focus and commitment, working long hours and forgoing personal time.
Mendoza is working long hours, but is making time for regular tennis matches and weekends with his wife and four young children.
They are young people from the country who have never been away from home, working long hours, and feeling alone and vulnerable.
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For several weeks the newspapers have been running stories about soldiers with "rotten crotches" - a casualty of working long hours in dirty water.
Working long hours in this job was expected and there was more than enough to do to keep me busy, so the situation was perfect.
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For the few weeks before and the few weeks after launch we were working long hours, but once it was up, traffic did not grow.
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However, Barajas says, not everyone experiences burnout from working long hours.
The apparel industry employs plenty of Americans, just not in the cutting and sewing operations that our parents and grandparents endured, working long hours for low wages.
Other than working long hours for low pay that is?
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Recent research is showing that consistently working long hours and not taking respite away from work, can have a damaging effect on health, and can negatively affect family life.
Women and children illegally trafficked become involved in many other industries too, such as carpet and garment manufacturing and brick making, often ending up working long hours for low wages.
The notion that working long hours and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is, in my view, a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science.
Working long hours is often just a quick fix.
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Having done both he does not recommend working from home exclusively, recognising the benefits of interacting with people in the office and the pitfalls of working long hours at home to keep up.
Attorneys, who are both arguing this case and deciding it, have a tradition of working long hours as new associates with no overtime until they pass the bar exam and can be licensed.
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Over the past three decades, they came in waves, working long hours in sweatshops, construction sites and assembly plants, enduring poor working conditions in order to save a little cash to remit home.
They said pressures from working long hours on assembly lines, usually 10 to 12 hours per day, discontent about the crowded dorms and military-like discipline were all likely contributing factors to the violence.
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Or there may be something in the Japanese caricature of the salaryman husband working long hours and socialising all night and at weekends, while his neglected, fretful wife struggles to bring up the children at home.
Yet increasingly, relatively humdrum, time-consuming tasks, which would once have been foisted on ambitious but inexperienced young recruits, working long hours to earn their spurs in Wall Street or the City of London, are, thanks to the miracle of fibre-optic cable, foisted on their lower-paid Indian counterparts.
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