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A cleaner is a type of industrial, or domestic worker who cleans homes, or offices for payment. Unlike servants, their primary task is cleaning, except by personal arrangement. It has been suggested that servant (domestic) be merged into this article or section. ... A payment is the act of transfering wealth into another person or company. ... Servant has a number of meaning: A servant is another word for domestic worker, a person who is hired to provide regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. ...


Cleaners may also be specialised according to the type of task they perform, such as window cleaners. A window cleaner maintains the cleanliness of windows, mirrors and other glass surfaces. ...


The 2000 movie Bread and Roses by British director Ken Loach depicted the struggle of cleaners in Los Angeles to fight for better pay, and working conditions, and the right to join a union. Bread and Roses is a 2000 British film, starring Adrien Brody, and directed by Ken Loach. ... Ken Loach Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is a English television and film director, known for his social realist style and socialist themes. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...


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The first hand-pumped vacuum cleaner in the United States was the “Whirlwind,” a wood and canvas contraption which appeared at the hands of a Chicago inventer in 1865.
Ads for vacuum cleaners showed such things as children playing in mounds of dirt, admonishing the homemakers that unless they were using the “Brand-X” vacuum sweeper, that was exactly what their children were doing — playing in filth and dirt and endangering their lives and health.
After all, you just used YOUR vacuum cleaner on it.” Of course she would agree, not wanting to concede the possibility that her present sweeper was inferior.
Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1541 words)
A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from carpeted floors.
Most robotic vacuum cleaners are designed for home use, although there are more capable models for operation in offices, hotels, hospitals, etc. By the end of 2003 about 570,000 units were sold worldwide.
Some vacuum cleaners are combined with electric mops in the same machine: for dry and a later wet clean.
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