work-place

English

Noun

work-place (plural work-places)

  1. Alternative spelling of workplace
    • 1972, Dorothy W. Douglas, Lynn Turgeon, chapter XI, in Transitional Economic Systems, The Polish-Czech Example, New York and London: Monthly Review Press, page 204:
      Suffice it to say that they served as a means of uniting all workers in a work-place at a time when craft unions were split by politics and unable to cope with large-scale industry, that they won recognition from governments in many cases as an emergency measure to head off revolutionary unrest, and that in both Czechoslovakia and Poland they laid claim to a compulsory contribution from employers for welfare purposes.
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