59 Results for : labourer
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Refuge : A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
Set in the tea estates of Sri Lanka, Refuge evokes the plight of the downtrodden Tamil labourers working on them. Their lives are a sharp contrast to the lives of the urbane, whisky-drinking managers in their clubs and mansions. Slender, doe-eyed Valliamma, a Tamil labourer on one plantation, is in love with Soma, a Sinhala fish vendor and the father of her illegitimate son. Valliamma is exploited by individuals, a brutal social and economic system and, ultimately, the politics of a state. Her fate symbolizes the dilemma and tragedy of her community, the so-called Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka. Struggling for a place in the land of her birth and that of her child, caught between issues of race and language, Valliamma is denied the shelter and refuge she seeks there. The novel ends as a journey begins, once more in search of refuge. This sensitive, disturbing novel compels one's concern for individual human tragedies being played out in Sri Lanka . ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deepti Gupta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003826/bk_adbl_003826_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min
This work by James Williams is one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves. It became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for ending the system of apprenticeship which had replaced slavery. Williams argues that apprenticeship worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves as former owners used the legal system against them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hal Saunders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/000708/bk_yurt_000708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire: My Lineage Pre-1700 - 1959 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
Every family has a story. And for Angela Fortnum, her maternal family story would begin eight generations before her and reach back to the turn of the 18th century in England - and it is a story that she will tell and continue today. In Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire, author Angela Fortnum shares a well-researched family history of her maternal grandfathers, offering a compelling window into the life and times of her ancestors. This history chronicles the Page family’s shift from agricultural and labourer life to self-employment and small holding, and it also lists the changes in the family’s religious beliefs over time. Angela includes as well a discussion of the richness and diversity of the church and chapel buildings that were linked in some way to her family, each of which tells a story of their own. In the end, the story of the Page family lives on today, as Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire stands as a legacy to Angela and her mother’s family and the great changes they experienced over the centuries. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Marcin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168381/bk_acx0_168381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Social Life Among the Assyrians and Babylonians , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min
The Assyrian Empire was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Middle East that existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC until it fell apart between 612 BC and 609 BC - spanning the periods of the Bronze Age to the late Iron Age. Babylonia was an area in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and Syria). It was only a small provincial town during the Akkadian Empire (2335–2154 BC) yet it greatly expanded during Hammurabi's reign in the 18th century BC. It was often involved in wars with Assyria to the north. Like Assyria, the Babylonian state kept the written Akkadian language. This classic work on the social life of the citizens of Assyria and Babylon covers the following topics: Chapter I: The People Chapter II: How the People Lived Chapter III: Education Chapter IV: Marriage and Death Chapter V: The Market. The Money-Lender, and The Tenant Chapter VI: Slavery and The Agricultural Labourer Chapter VII: Trades and Professions Chapter VIII: The Religion of The People ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Bumbak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203322/bk_acx0_203322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Tinder Box, Hörbuch, Digital, 136min
In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordan has been arrested for the brutal murder of elderly Lavinia Fanshaw and her live-in nurse, Dorothy Jenkins. As shock turns to fury, the village residents form a united front against Patrick's parents and cousin, who report incidents of vicious threats and violence. But friend and neighbour Siobhan Lavenham remains convinced that Patrick has fallen victim to a prejudiced investigation and, putting her own position within the bigoted community in serious jeopardy, stands firmly by his family in defence of the O'Riordan name. Days before the trial, terrible secrets about the O'Riordans' past are revealed to Siobhan, and the family's only supporter is forced to question her loyalties. Could Patrick be capable of murder after all? Could his parents' tales of attacks be devious fabrications? And if so, what other lies lurk beneath the surface of their world? As the truth rapidly unfurls, it seems that Sowerbridge residents need to be very afraid. For beneath a cunning façade, someone's chilling ambition is about to ignite. Language: English. Narrator: Catherine Cusack. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000019/bk_macm_000019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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August Heat: Inspector Montalbano, Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min
August Heat, by Andrea Camilleri, is the 10th instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series, adapted as a major BBC4 television series. Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut and sat down on top of it. When the beam from Livia's torch shone on his face, he automatically smiled. 'What's in the trunk?' Livia asked. 'Nothing. It's empty.' How could he possibly have told her there was a corpse inside? The lazy, slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is, Inspector Montalbano assures his girlfriend, Livia, as they prepare for a relaxing holiday in a villa he has found for them, far too hot for any murders to be committed. But when Livia's friends' young son goes missing, a chain of events is sparked which will certainly ruin the Chief Inspector's pleasant interlude. A secret apartment and a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning as Montalbano navigates his way though the case and copes with the sweltering heat, the suspicious death of an Arab labourer and the tempting lure of a beautiful girl.... August Heat is followed by the 11th audiobook in the series, The Wings of the Sphinx. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001131/bk_macm_001131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hancock's Half Hour: Series 4: 20 episodes of the classic BBC Radio comedy series, Hörbuch, Digital, 637min
The fourth series of the legendary BBC Radio comedy series starring Tony Hancock. Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock's Half Hour was the radio vehicle that made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes mundane life of "the lad 'imself". Aided and abetted by Sid James, Bill Kerr Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, Hancock would enter into the spirit of each episode with characteristic dolefulness. This volume contains all 20 episodes from the fourth radio series, collected together for the first time. In these hilarious Half Hours, Hancock moves from 23 Railway Cuttings to the dosshouse to a Scottish castle; acquires a secretary; visits the ballet; and tries his hand at a multitude of professions including agricultural labourer, coffee bar owner and policeman.... The episodes included are: 'Back from Holiday', 'The Bolshoi Ballet', 'Sid James' Dad', 'The Income Tax Demand', 'The New Secretary', 'Michelangelo 'Ancock', 'Anna and the King of Siam', 'Cyrano de Hancock', 'The Stolen Petrol', 'The Expresso Bar', 'Hancock's Happy Christmas', 'The Diary', 'The 13th of the Series', 'Almost a Gentleman', 'The Old School Reunion', 'The Wild Man of the Woods', 'Agricultural 'Ancock', 'Hancock in the Police', 'The Emigrant' and 'The Last of the McHancocks'. Language: English. Narrator: full cast, Sid James, Tony Hancock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002164/bk_rhuk_002164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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This Has Always Been a War (eBook, ePUB)
Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment and sexuality, we can see the ways straight, cis, white, and especially male upper-class people control and subvert the other-queer, non-binary, BIPOC, and female bodies-in order to keep the working lower classes divided. Patriarchy and classism are forms of systemic violence which ensure that the main commodity of capitalism-a large, disposable, cheap, and ideally subjugated work force-is readily available. There is a lot wrong with the ways we live, work, and treat each other. In essays that are both accessible and inspiring, Lori Fox examines their confrontations with the capitalist patriarchy through their experiences as a queer, non-binary, working-class farm hand, labourer, bartender, bush-worker, and road dog, exploring the ugly places where issues of gender, sexuality, class, and the environment intersect. In applying the micro to the macro, demonstrating how the personal is political and vice versa, Fox exposes the flaws in believing that this is the only way our society can or should work. Brash, topical, and passionate, This Has Always Been a War is not only a collection of essays, but a series of dispatches from the combative front lines of our present-day culture.- Shop: buecher
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The Book of the Farm
The Book of the Farm ab 20.49 € als Taschenbuch: Detailing the Labours of the Farmer Farm-Steward Ploughman Shepherd Hedger Farm-Labourer Field-Worker and Cattle-Man. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Sing as We Go , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 791min
Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasional dance at the village hall for amusement, she yearns for the bright lights. Spurning Morry Robinson's proposal of marriage, Kathy goes to live in the city with his aunt, Jemima Robinson. In turn, she finds employment for Kathy in a department store, but is anxious when Kathy is captivated by the sophisticated and handsome floor manager, Tony Kendall. 'He has a reputation,' the outspoken Jemima warns her. 'He's had more girl friends than I've got shoes in my closet.' Kathy has fallen deeply and irrevocably in love and, even when the country is plunged into war, she can see no obstacle to their future. But she has reckoned without the devious mind of Tony's invalid mother, Beatrice Kendall. 'You'll never marry my son,' she vows. 'I'll see to that.' Determined that the possessive woman won't win, Kathy plans her wedding, but the day is ruined and Tony is called up before another date can be arranged. Feeling deserted, Kathy is forced to face yet further heartache and shame alone. At last, she finds solace in joining a concert party entertaining service men and woman and war workers. But behind the songs and the smiles, her heart is breaking. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000739/bk_macm_000739_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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