Word: labors
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...example, in an attempt to prove that “racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering,” he claims that before the Civil Rights Movement blacks had a higher labor force participation rate than whites, but after the movement, they had a lower participation rate. First, this participation rate does not equal prosperity. If participation in the labor force were the definition of prosperity, then black tenant farmers would have been defined as more prosperous than their white landlords. Second, though a greater proportion of blacks may have been in the labor force before...
...Harvard undergraduate. Through Dorm Crew, we are literally given the tools to broaden our minds, a ladder to descend from the ivory tower. Somewhere in that broom lies a life lesson that struggles to impart itself; we ought to be open enough to allow the humility of hard manual labor to take hold...
...labor dispute a couple of years ago that has now transitioned into a safety issue. The FAA had a mandate from Congress to start running things like a business, to be more cost-effective. That has manifested itself in the rise of runway incursions [airplanes invading each other's ground space]. These are very clearly the result of a reduction in staffing, a decline in experience, and an increase in the use of employee overtime, which leads to increased fatigue. The result is a 300% to 400% increase in operational errors. Listen, this is a great job and I will...
...choice meat.”I’m not sure how that makes you feel, but her words make me nauseous. For a moment, I’m not sure if I’m reading the words of Iris Burton or the roughly translated phrasing a child-labor-using sweatshop owner in a third-world country. But if you consider it carefully, there are more parallels between these types of labor than you would imagine.Child actors, like sweatshop workers, often lose the opportunity to attend a normal school and never experience important stages in character and personality development...
...against ruthless violence that makes “The White King” interesting.“The White King” offers a fascinating and terrifying display of how a national philosophy of violence manifests itself in all facets of life. Just as the state throws into a labor camp anyone who, like Djata’s father, dares to raise his voice against the regime, the school’s soccer coach, Gica, resorts to violence to get things done. Coach Gica tells his team that “after the game he’d smash everyone?...