How To Use Padrone In A Sentence
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Peck's padrones emerge as ‘entrepreneurs of space,’ providing critical links and a variety of functions in the volatile transnational labor markets that spread out across the North American continent.
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One day I got work at the fruit market through the padrone.
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Such a leader is almost always under the patronage of a "boss" in New York or a 'padrone' in Italy, who uses his influence to protect the members of the gang when in legal difficulties and find them jobs when out of work and in need of funds.
Courts and Criminals
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In this way the padrone provided American companies with large numbers of employees for which they were paid handsomely.
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Not long ago people like Renato and Theresa worked for a padrone as serfs, for no pay.
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The situation changed dramatically in July at the ceremony to formally turn over Palazzo Grassi to its new padrone.
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Padrone, I swear by the Holy Virgin I have never taken advantage of your kindness.
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You can enjoy a perfect Tuscan kitchen and the hospitality of the Padrone and his team in the heart of Vienna.
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Her poverty she easily conceived of; plenty of signorine in Italy were poor; and she protected her in it with the duty she did not divide quite evenly between her and the padrone.
Ragged Lady — Volume 2
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Here they re-created their cultural patterns and social networks, including banks established by padrones (labor contractors), mutual-aid societies providing sickness and death benefits, and the festa of the town's patron saint.
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There is no question that in many instances padrones were able to exploit the relative ignorance of immigrant workers to capture a large share of the gains from mobilizing labor.
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Our favourite restaurant there was Archimede, whose vigilant padrone and busy staff put on a bustling show like something out of the commedia dell'arte.
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He works the national borders between southern Europe and the three North American states, and the class and racial boundaries between resident populations, the immigrant workers, and the padrones.
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The padrone supervised the gang's work and provided housing and meals, charging a fee against wages.
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Here they re-created their cultural patterns and social networks, including banks established by padrones (labor contractors), mutual-aid societies providing sickness and death benefits, and the festa of the town's patron saint.
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He was a commited socialist who ran his ranch like a kindly paternalistic padrone.
Interview With Historian and Writer Clarice Stasz
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The Padrone jests," said Jackeymo, statelily, "as if any one could starve in his service.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
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They let me take a fatt for the padrone-God. rest 0a aoul-and when I'm out of the slammer, I'm deported.
Greenmantle
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These Greeks often were subject to the padrone system, a form of exploitative indentured servitude employed in many of the larger industrial cities of the North and in the large mining corporations of the West.
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He said he did not believe the padrone was a bad fellow, but he liked to take advantage of a stranger when he could; we all did.
Ragged Lady — Complete
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Each time another shipment of men arrives, one of his employees appears on the second-floor balcony, like a Mexican padrone, to welcome them in Spanish - and to warn them not to talk with farmworker advocates.
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Carbone immediately collected Moroni's mohair overcoat from the cupboard and hurried forward to place it around his padrone 's shoulders.
FINAL RESORT
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The Philadelphia is attached to the Parmigiana restaurant and I have witnessed more than one gourmet in this fine establishment ask Sandro, il padrone, if they can go off the menu and have a fish supper sent though from the Phillie.
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The padrone is his uncle, and treats him better than the rest of us.
Phil, the Fiddler
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One of these is Giuliano Binanti, the padrone of the Giuliano group of restaurants in Edinburgh, who each autumn acts as my mushroom mentor.
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And so one night, having indulged a little too freely in a local wine called ‘The Tears of Christ,’ I confessed to the hotel padrone a furtive secret.
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Based on an autobiographical book by Gavino Ledda, Padre Padrone is filmed in Sardinian, a regional Italian dialect.
An Experiment for Fake Memoirs - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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Lori Eanes for The Wall Street Journal Dungeness crab deviled eggs with chipotle aioli "This is traditional fare, with a twist," says Tisha Hilario, a 46-year-old software trainer at a nearby federal building, after finishing a lunch that included a $13 mushroom quesadilla with Oaxaca cheese, pickled padrone peppers and scallions.
Bocanova
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Lori Eanes for The Wall Street Journal Dungeness crab deviled eggs with chipotle aioli "This is traditional fare, with a twist," says Tisha Hilario, a 46-year-old software trainer at a nearby federal building, after finishing a lunch that included a $13 mushroom quesadilla with Oaxaca cheese, pickled padrone peppers and scallions.
Bocanova
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“But, but—the padrone gave us the money to come here,” Bella said.
Uprising
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He was using it to pay off the padrone for your ticket to America.
Uprising
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He must be down there on that beach searching, calling his padrone's name, perhaps.
The Call of the Blood
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The padrone was an ethnic intermediary and labour agent with the resources necessary to conduct the trade.
