Word: laboral
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...Navarasa,” the moods of love, compassion, fury, fear, wonder, disgust, peace, humor, and valor. Instead of focusing on Hindu mythology, the directors have chosen stories and concepts from many different cultures and time periods. Helen Keller, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, child labor, and King Ashoka all make it into the show. Bharatha Natyam as a dance style facilitates storytelling in two ways, through its pure dance elements (“nritta”) and its expressionistic elements (“abhinaya”). “It’s about the range of human emotion...
...allows pretty much anything from glassware to backpacks to be licensed, but obtaining rights to the trademark is not easy. In order to acquire trademark licenses, companies and individuals must go through a procedure that includes paying royalties for Harvard items sold, submitting sample products, and joining the Fair Labor Association. And selling licenses isn’t all the trademark office does. Their duties also include policing the illegal use of the Harvard trademark on an international scale. “This is what I find most exciting,” says Rick Calixto, director of Harvard?...
Elizabeth Martinez, a hotel worker from California, shared her experiences as an employee and a labor organizer with Harvard students in a discussion yesterday organized by the Harvard Student Labor Action Movement. Martinez has been working as a waitress at the Hilton Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. for 11 years. She said that working conditions have degenerated since the management of the hotel was turned over four years ago to HEI Hotels and Resorts, a company supported by funds from various university endowments. “The way they manage those hotels is just horrible,” Martinez said...
...minutes:$4.25.That, minus taxes, was how much I was being paid for each hour of increasing delirium and dehydration. No benefits, no breaks, and no entertainment. Worst of all, I had just stumbled upon this unpleasant new figure by receiving my first paycheck for two weeks of blissfully ignorant labor. You see, friends, the federal minimum wage was $5.15, and the wage I had been promised was a full $6.00. $4.25 was neither of these. But alas! The worst part of this predicament was that I was stuck, unless I was willing to fritter away the rest of my summer...
...says. “I’d text my blockmates on Saturday morning and be like, ‘Can I start hammering now?’” Despite the inconvenience to his neighbors, Batt believes the final result was well worth the labor...