Low-skilled or unskilled worker in manual-labour occupations and industrial work, usually for a wage

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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.

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.

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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Temporary employment

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A busy examining hall 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.

Russo-Japanese War: rows of women in a large warehouse making bandages for the wounded Japanese. Pen and ink drawing, 1904.

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.

Temporary employment

Images from the collections

Images referencing Temporary employment

Works from the collections

A busy examining hall 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.

Russo-Japanese War: rows of women in a large warehouse making bandages for the wounded Japanese. Pen and ink drawing, 1904.

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.

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