What's the difference between bootblack and shoeshiner?
Bootblack
Definition:
(n.) One who blacks boots.
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Shoeshiner
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(1) They’re from the Munecas region and they’ve come to La Paz to work as shoeshiners.
(2) KS Shoeshiners are one of the most stigmatised groups in society in La Paz.
(3) In return, the shoeshiners take part in weekly workshops on subjects ranging from human rights and education to first aid.
(4) As one of very few young girls working as a shoeshiner, she disguised herself as a boy.
(5) KS It was this stigma around shoeshiners that prompted Jaime Villalobos to start Hormigón Armado.
(6) JV And what became very important and very clear for me was that support that society gives these kids and that is very representative in the masks that the shoeshiners wear.
(7) All have realised the importance of school and are keen to attend, so why is there such a negative profiling of shoeshiners?
(8) She’s taking me to meet some of the children who work as shoeshiners in the city centre.
(9) Recent events in Shanghai’s stock markets have been all too reminiscent of the tales that have entered American folk memory from the days of the Wall Street crash in 1929: of stock-tipping shoeshine boys, exhausted traders, and ticker-tape machines spooling late into the night.
(10) Wearing balaclavas and carrying wooden boxes filled with polish and brushes, shoeshiners are reviled by many as drug addicts and criminals, but their story is more often one of poverty, child labour, violence and homelessness.
(11) Every two months, 5,000 newspapers funded by advertising are printed and given free to shoeshiners, who sell them to the public for four Bolivianos (about 35p).
(12) Walking the cobbled streets of Bolivia 's capital with scuffed or dirty shoes attracts a lot of attention from the hundreds of shoeshiners who work along the city's streets and plazas.
(13) KS In fact all the shoeshiners I spoke to attend school almost on a daily basis.
(14) But alcoholism isn’t only a problem with shoeshiners, across all types of jobs that problem exists.
(15) Mohammed and Mohammed, 12 and 16, are working as shoeshine boys.
(16) shoeshiner Juan José Poma, 33, says in an interview published in a recent issue.
(17) As a child she worked doing various jobs and eventually she became a shoeshiner in La Paz.
(18) Eighty-four-year-old Blatt, one of two plaintiffs who survived the camp, managed to stay alive by working as a shoeshine boy to the camp commandant before escaping in October 1943.
(19) Bolivia's informal economy includes everyone from bricklayers to farmers to shoeshiners, who work without contracts and set schedules.
(20) It is also a story you can read in the newspaper sold by a small group of shoeshiners to supplement their income.