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...entire film industry in China is a censorship apparatus. The Beijing Film Academy disgorges talented directors, but the regional film studios typically employ these ambitious youngsters in menial jobs. The government hopes that, by the time they are finally given the chance to make a film, they will be sympathetic to the corruption of the system?docile artisans...
...course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...
...course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...
...nature of their work. The NYU administration maintained that the work performed by graduate students serves as an integral part of their education, and therefore exempts them from full worker-status, including the right to unionize. But these arguments fail to take into account the large amounts of menial work graduate students perform, often in departments completely unrelated to their field. Shouldering clerical duties for a professor does not enhance the edification of graduate students--if anything, the work detracts from their studies. These extra tasks should bestow graduate students the right to collective bargaining...
...Rodriguez was a customer service rep at a Toys R Us store in New Jersey, pulling long hours and getting hostile glares from coworkers who thought she was too friendly to shoppers. She didn't mind the hassles. To Rodriguez it was strictly a means to an end - a menial, part-time job she needed to earn $300 for audition photos that would allow her to pursue her dream of becoming an actress...