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Hong Kong is the home of some 250,000 migrant workers. Most of them are coming from Indonesia and the Philippines. Every Sundays, they come out to meet friends and make calls to their families.

Communication helps to comfort and to sustain them.

Taking care at Chittagong by Gerry Popplestone

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I think they are surprised that anyone wants to photograph them!

Calling Home: Migrant Workers in Hong Kong by KC Wong

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Hong Kong is the home of some 250,000 migrant workers. Most of them are coming from Indonesia and the Philippines. Every Sundays, they come out to meet friends and make calls to their families.

Communication helps to comfort and to sustain them.

GWR Swindon Works housing. by Hugh Llewelyn

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Workers' cottages built by the GWR for Swindon Works, 19 February 2022. Victorian.

Worker by Ekrem Koray Berkin

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Asian workers by tony hart

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Asian workers

Her hands,working fool by andrea floris

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We were returning from a little village,directed towards SIghetu Marmatiei (Romania) when I saw this lady spinning wool, sitting in front oh her home, under the shadow of a tree...

I felt in Sardinia, 50 years ago...

Thanks to her, very nice and kind

The glass worker by Clive Stanley

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Workers by Jed Sullivan

(High resolution version available upon request)

Workers by Viktor Persson

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Workers by David Chen

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workers by storm light

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Duthie mine in the roaring 20's. Not sure who the men are or what building this is. Wish I was able to ask gramps...

Worker by Phillip Hughes

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early morning climbing a ladder heavenwards

Workers by Graham Burton

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Tarmac and road painters in Blackburn & Darwen Jan 2014

worker by Zsanett Szinvavölgyi

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Workers by M. Maness

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Waiting for the train to pass

Befestigung eines Betonteiles by googleball

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2018 Worker Memorial event by Washington State Dept of Transportation

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Sixty WSDOT workers from across the state formed the WSDOT Honor Guard during the Worker Memorial Event. There was one member for every worker killed on the job since 1950.

WORKER 198 by danny 2008

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workers by alev adil

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P1060600 by logger10

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Calling Home: Migrant Workers in Hong Kong by KC Wong

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Hong Kong is the home of some 250,000 migrant workers. Most of them are coming from Indonesia and the Philippines. Every Sundays, they come out to meet friends and make calls to their families.

Communication helps to comfort and to sustain them.

Worker #01 by Ladislav Rombald

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P091509PS-0181 by Obama White House Archived

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President Barack Obama attends a roundtable discussion with GM workers at the General Motors Lordstown Assembly Plant in Warren, Ohio, on Sept. 15, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

Worker Protest by Miki Jourdan

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Aix-en-Provence, France. Workers were protesting the government's disregard of victims of asbestos-related illness. One person joked darkly that we should take photos now because many of the protestors won't be alive in a year.

IMG_4088 by googleball

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workers by Simon Chen Photography

workers by Marion Schreiber

building workers rebuilding the former "Amadeus", in the future called Thalia

Worker's March by dsankt

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Hung on the front wall of the communist monument in huge concrete letters are verses of "The International" and "The Worker’s March". Bulgaria

This photo is part of the set Balkan Loop, part 3.

worker by Susan Sermoneta

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Workers sleeping quarters? by Graham

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I`m assuming the workers stayed in this area next to the stables. The house is situated within the Jardines de Alfabia (Gardens of Alfabia) near Bunyola. The gardens are worth a look & can be found on the right hand side just before the Soller Tunnel. This was the former residence of the Governor of Mallorca...20/04/15

the laundry worker by zoetnet

laundry worker in barcelona spain

Worker Bee by Theo Barrios

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Worker by James Ong

Playing with his mobile phone, i think.!

Worker by Johan Klintberg

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Workers moving a boiler at the Brisbane Electric Supply Co. in Brisbane, ca. 1898 by State Library of Queensland

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Creator: Unidentified.

Location: Brisbane, Queensland.

Description: Brisbane Electric Supply Co. moved to 69 Ann Street from the Barton & White building in Edison Lane about 1898. They changed their name to City Electric Light Co. in 1904. (Description supplied with photograph.)

View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/205838

Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland

You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.

Migrant Worker II by Kevin Schoenmakers

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A migrant worker from a Tibetan region in Sichuan, a neighbouring province.

Part of a set: Rebuilding Yushu.

Jiegu, in Yushu, Qinghai province, was struck by a strong earthquake (6.9) on the 14th of April, 2010, with over 2000 casualties. Now, it is being rebuilt almost entirely.

www.kevinschoenmakers.nl

worker waiting by Kosta

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Migrant workers going home by BBC World Service

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These workers from Bangladesh came to Singapore to earn better wages to improve their lives but now most are returning home in debt.

You can read more about Claire Bolderson's trip here:

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/05/090508_claire_dia...