Word: toils
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...Thomas Carlyle once claimed that "All true work is sacred." To which the philosopher John Stuart Mill responded: "Work ... is not a good in itself. There is nothing laudable in work for work's sake." Ever since, a debate has been raging in Western societies about the nature of toil - what it is and what it's worth. In Blood Sweat & Tears (Texere; 338 pages) Richard Donkin, a Financial Times writer on management topics, sets out to find some answers. The quest is not a complete success, but it does offer some comfort to today's overworked wage slaves. Donkin...
...course of applying for a series of jobs: as a cleaning person, a supermarket clerk and as an "associate" at various big-box stores. No, I hadn't given up on writing; I was doing research for a book on the low-wage life. I was expecting to toil and sweat, even wear unflattering uniforms. But I wasn't expecting to have to share my innermost thoughts...
Airbus isn't blinking. The workers at the Clement Ader plant in Toulouse toil away to the scream of rock-guitar music while tourists observe their labors from a metallic catwalk. Across from the plant, on the other side of a runway, a site has been cleared for the colossal building that will house the A380s. The engineers will probably bike in the hangar--an aerospace version of the Tour de France. And like the tour's cyclists, they know better than to discount the American competitor...
Charity is not alone in her enthusiasm for her creative thesis and the imaginative toil and academic intensity it inspired. Jerome L. Martin ’01, who is also a Crimson editor, wrote a collection of 39 poems for his thesis, and says that one of the highlights of his experience was the opportunity to work with Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham...
...Jones took the romanticized slave-labor scenes from Confederate currency and reproduced them in oil paintings paired with the bills. The effect is to punctuate the exploitation of blacks for profit. One scene depicts a sun-lit goddess of good fortune in repose, counting her gold as slaves toil in the fields behind...