"Out of work" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... get on tolerably well they stay for a while, but they find America is more expensive than Ireland, and if, for any cause, they get out of work there, they come back to Ireland to spend what they have. Naturally, you see," said Father M'Fadden, "they find a certain pleasure to be seen by their old friends in the old place, after borrowing the four pounds perhaps to take them ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert
... used to make one hundred. Somehow, there is no demand now for what we manufacture, or but very little demand. You see I am at vast expense, and I have called you together this afternoon to see what you would advise. I don't want to shut up the mill, because that would force you out of work, and you have always been very faithful, and I like you, and you seem to like me, and the bairns must be looked after, and your wife will after awhile want a new dress. I ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage
... labour, had been permitted by law to exist. At this time, however, these confederacies had become formidable. "Strikes" were constantly recurring, so that the masters lay at the mercy of the operatives. Thus at Ashton fifty-two mills and thirty thousand persons were thrown out of work, by the "strike" of three thousand "coarse spinners," who could clear at the time about thirty shillings per week; and at Manchester one thousand "fine spinners" struck work, because the masters would not pay them more than thirty-five ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... fellow-townsmen were celebrating in so jovial a manner. In Norwich the demonstration was to be of a more imposing character, and as an invitation had come to the heads of the family from an old friend, a minister out of work, and living more or less comfortably on his property, it seemed good to them to accept it, and to take me with them, deeming, possibly, that of two evils it was best to choose the least, and that I should be safer under their eye at Norwich than with no ...
— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie
... this new difficulty, not wishing to disturb the happiness of the Wren family, nor find himself out of work, either. ...
— The Tale of Rusty Wren • Arthur Scott Bailey
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