Technocrati; Guest Worker

[Jeffrey William McKeough]

Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>GUEST WORKER
>
>   Today's WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12 February 2001, pg. A17, has a
>story about "guest" labor (from Mexico).  It's guest labor/ laborer/
>work/ worker.
>   I don't like the term.  Do you charge for a "guest room"?  If you
>did charge, wouldn't that person be a "customer"?

Maybe a loan translation of German "Gastarbeiter" (sp?)?

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