Word: laborer
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...Harvard Dining Services (HDS) decides it will resume serving grapes in dining halls after a five-year ban. Several students object to the decision on feedback cards, citing concerns about labor practices on grape farms, and HDS postpones its decision in November...
Division of Labor...
...Indonesian shoe factory, workers labor 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, crowded in hot rooms, ingesting poisonous chemicals...
...Dole, who served as secretary of transportation under President Reagan and secretary of labor under President Bush, said politics is an honorable profession and that she hoped public confidence in government would revive...
...council's limited potential, not a rejection of progressive politics per se. But evidence indicates otherwise. Last fall's referendum on bringing grapes back to Harvard dining halls was a further embrace of the new, cold pragmatism that has apparently set in among us. Though the debate over unfair labor practices and union organization was muddled by accusations of misinformation, at the end of the day thousands of students voted with their stomachs--an indication of their reluctance to participate in conflicts and debates beyond the Harvard sphere...