Word: labors
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...sweatshops and wages, I am far less sympathetic. I cannot help but chuckle when the staff calls sweatshops one of "society's gravest ills." Surely such labor is unpleasant and progress can be made toward improving overseas working conditions, but this is hardly one of the great struggles of our time...
...weeks ago, members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) sent a letter to University President Neil L. Rudenstine demanding that presidents of Ivy League schools adopt a strict anti-sweatshop code of conduct...
According to Burni, trafficking involves the abduction and trickery of women into prostitution, domestic service and sweatshop labor...
Protesters will call on Faculty members to respond to campaigns against sweatshop labor, for a $10-per-hour living wage for all Harvard workers and for improved various services for women who have been sexually assaulted...
Such invocations of Juno in the drawing room weren't empty tropes for him. The seated version of Madame Moitessier, finished in 1856 after years of frustrating labor and scores of preliminary studies, is Ingres's Mona Lisa. It's a wonderful blend of intelligibility and mysteriousness. On one hand it is an intensely material painting: the care Ingres took with every last detail of her costume and massive jewelry--the cascading rose-embroidered fabric, the tassels on the bodice--almost defies belief. On the other it harks back in time. Her pose is taken from that of the goddess...