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Temporary employment

Situation where the employee is expected to leave the employer within a certain period of time

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Images referencing Temporary employment

10 images from works
  • Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.
  • A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • Swatow (Shantou), Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: Chinese labourers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A busy stacking room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A busy drying room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • Swatow (Shantou), Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: Chinese labourers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.
  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of women in a large warehouse making bandages for the wounded Japanese. Pen and ink drawing, 1904.

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    A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

    Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope) | Date: [1851] | Reference: 25039i
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    A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

    Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope) | Date: [1851] | Reference: 25043i
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    Russo-Japanese War: rows of women in a large warehouse making bandages for the wounded Japanese. Pen and ink drawing, 1904.

    | Date: 1904 | Reference: 23862i
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    Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

    Bourne & Shepherd | Date: 1900 | Reference: 25047i
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    A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

    Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope) | Date: [1851] | Reference: 25038i
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Related topics

Drug factories
Employees
Opium
Blue collar workers
Opium trade
Patna
Drugs
Manufacturing and Industrial Facilities
Narcotics
Drug Trafficking

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