Word: labors
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This month, the College Democrats have staged three major events, organizing a speech by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, coordinating a discussion with Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol and co-sponsoring the recent discussions on race led by the Institute of Politics. These events have attracted between 15 and 40 people each...
Hopkins adds that liberals, who are increasingly drawn to work in "very focused areas," have also turned to the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) to target specific issues...
...SFSFC's petition. More importantly, we encourage the administration, in conjunction with Students for a Sweat-Free Campus, to adopt a stringent code of conduct to prevent sweatshop conditions. Shai M. Sachs '01, an organizer of the rally, says, "What we're hoping to get across is that sweatshop labor is a very real, very shameful practice, and that we need a strong code of conduct to combat...
...definite drawbacks. It is here where the esteem society places on different professions translates into snobbery. Many resort guests constantly be little resort workers, failing to act kindly towards or even acknowledge those paid by the hour. They (and sometimes we) are too busy enjoying the fruits of their labor to act with common decency. But on the whole, a local's life of powder, blue skies and simplicity is appealing to someone who swims in problem sets and essays even while on vacation...
Their lives, by the evidence of their remains, were brutish and short. X rays of some 60 complete bodies show that many of the adults had arthritis and bone deformities (not surprising, considering that they performed hard labor), the parasitic disease schistosomiasis (most likely picked up while standing in irrigation ditches), stunted growth (suggesting malnutrition or illness) and tuberculosis. Adults died at 38, on average; few reached 50; and the presence of many children and young mothers implies a high rate of infant mortality and death in childbirth...