Word: labors
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...Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three of the E.U.'s then 15 countries--Ireland, Britain and Sweden--opened their labor markets...
...Crew as a store that sells basics like tank tops and Capris but also dares to inch up the food chain of craftsmanship (think cashmere sweaters), avoiding the race to the bottom by refusing to woo price-conscious consumers and sell ever cheaper clothes made with ever cheaper labor--a trend driven by discounters like Wal-Mart and Kohl's that has rippled to specialty shops. He has also taken away the fashion-by-engineering ethic that made J. Crew predictably boring...
...defies simple classification. “I think that being a serious scholar and being an artist are not opposed,” she says. “I’m not trying to be a professional artist. I like the idea of working against the division of labor, especially in Barthes’s definition—that what we need to do as intellectuals is unlearn. Learning something new and loving the process is important for me so I don’t become in essence, framed...
...writer is editor and publications coordinator of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School...
...hoped her plan would unite and empower the village’s residents by involving them in the project. “One of my biggest points of the proposal is that the only cost is the cost of the materials, and the largest contribution comes from the volunteer labor of the villagers themselves,” she said, adding that the destroyed facility had acted as a cultural center for the villagers. Kobiljar submitted her proposal through the foundation’s “100 Projects for Peace” initiative, which invited students from the 76 colleges...