Voorbeelden van navvy

• Evidently the fact that navvies tended to move around the country in all-male bands was one of the major causes of concern.

• Not surprisingly, therefore, given their unruly reputation, newspapers and periodicals were quick to seize upon examples of navvy loyalty wherever and whenever they occurred.

• Modern traces of these traditions haunted the tunnel even after it was completed, if with less foundation than for the navvies.

• The press of the day gave glowing accounts of the navvies' achievements.

• However, most contemporary accounts of navvies tended to stigmatize them as an insubordinate, unruly, and ungovernable class of men.

• It may be noted that the railways were more pervasive than the canals, the construction of which had also of course involved large numbers of navvies.

• For it does not matter if the promotion under consideration is to being foreman of a gang of navvies or to managing director of a large corporation.

• There is, moreover, little or no visual communication among them; even the navvies are apparently separate from one another while being engaged in the same task.

• It would mean that navvies would be required to dig trenches, and workmen to erect lines and factories, to make plant, instruments, wires and cables.

• Much of this work will be unskilled navvy work.

• Is it not a fact that the very hard work is done by mechanical navvies instead of ordinary labour?

• There must be a large number of men who subsequently become navvies who have to do something as boys?

• Why are the thousands of navvies excluded, seeing the disgraceful conditions in which they are housed?

• Yet when you put the unskilled men to do the navvy's work you displace the skilled navvy.

• Owing to the navvies and transport strikes the application for an extension of time is now being considered.