| 单词 | labour |
| 例句 | To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the labour of repair went on apace, and Sam was kept very busy. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “By the time you’ve paid your men for the extra labour, and then the packing, and carting, do you make any sort of profit worth while?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He felt his tongue cleave to his mouth, and his heart labouring. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “When it was evening I wished for morning; and when it was morning, the prospect of the labours of the day...caused me to wish for the return of evening.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And on weekends black people continued to feast and drink heavily in an effort to unwind and prepare for another week of hard labour in the white world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z With you and your faithful servant, Gandalf will go; for this shall be his great task, and maybe the end of his labours. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For the Entwives were bent and browned by their labour; their hair parched by the sun to the hue of ripe corn and their cheeks like red apples. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When the labours of repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a great deal and going through all his notes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Was not the labour problem the same everywhere? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The position was, and perhaps it may as well be laboured for the last time, that Arthur’s father had killed the Earl of Cornwall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I answered by inviting him to accompany me on a general inspection of the result of my labours. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z For that day we all must labour, Though we die before it break; Cows and horses, geese and turkeys, All must toil for freedom's sake. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And in their final report to the government, Tocqueville and Beaumont wrote, One cannot see the prison of Sing-Sing and the system of labour which is there established without being struck by astonishment and fear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d dropped out of secondary school, and manual labour would be his punishment, though I had a feeling it would do him good to get out of his parents’ flat and work. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They were content to eat the results of all this hard labour, but they were unwilling to do their full share of the work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z But something was definitely gone, and they looked laboured, almost like they’d been copied. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was just settling himself to begin when the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And when he could labour no more, he cast his cloak about him, and slipped out of the City, and went to his tent just ere dawn and slept for a little. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But the others, all that were not hurt or wounded, began a great labour; for many had fallen in the battle and lay dead upon the field or in the Deep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The Fall had partly disrupted this perfect arrangement, forcing human beings to labour to survive; but the original architecture of the universe was still visible for all to see. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But we did not grumble — our labours had been well rewarded. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z All day the labour went forward, while the men of Minas Tirith looked on, unable to hinder it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Such will, of course, immensely simplify our labour, and the sooner the matter is attended to the better. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair; and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As the light faded so the clink-clank died; in the gathering darkness only a few faint sounds of hammering told of a solitary stone-breaker continuing his labours. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When the fighting was over, and the later labours were ordered, Merry, Pippin, and Sam joined him, and they rode back with the Cottons. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Her breathing was getting quite laboured, and as we walked together, she’d now and then lurch into me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, it was gone; almost the last trace of their labour was gone! Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It is more seemly to regard it as the last message to his fellow- creatures of a man who laboured with all his strength to propagate the noble truth - Love is of God. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z ‘Gandalf will come as soon as he may. He is busy, but he sends greetings, and I am to see that all is well with you; and you resting, I hope, after your long labours.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And Aragorn arose and went out, and he sent for the sons of Elrond, and together they laboured far into the night. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Apart from the liberal arts, the skills of the educated, there were plenty of arts that involved manual labour—mechanical arts—such as goldsmithing or masonry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My father spent two months doing hard labour on a white man’s potato farm for his pass crimes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anything you tell me. There be some sports are painful—you know. But their labour delight in them sets off. That’s what I feel. I mean I’d sweep the floor if you wanted.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly ruinous it seemed, but already before the night was passed the sound of hurried labour could be heard: beat of hammers, clink of trowels, and the creak of wheels. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Instead, they bought loaves of sugar that carried a label that said, “Produced by the labour of FREEMEN”—the sugar came from India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But west would lead them only into more labour and delay, back towards the heart of the hills; east would take them to the outer precipice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When we had done, the rice yield was meagre—no more than two measures—all that was left of the year’s harvest and the year’s labour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the an-imals’ backs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z ‘But the Rohirrim made a great burning here yesterday,’ said Gimli, ‘and they felled trees for the fire, as can be seen. Yet they passed the night after safely here, when their labour was ended.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Stone-hard are the Dwarves in labour or journey, but this endless chase began to tell on him, as all hope failed in his heart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Wheat didn’t like sharing its space, water and nutrients with other plants, so men and women laboured long days weeding under the scorching sun. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Glóin began then to talk of the works of his people, telling Frodo about their great labours in Dale and under the Mountain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘You have proved mightiest, and all your labours have gone well. Where now would you be going? And why do you come here?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They forgot or ignored what little they had ever known of the Guardians, and of the labours of those that made possible the long peace of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was a labour of love in more ways than one. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Pippin,’ said Frodo, ‘didn’t you say that Gandalf was less close than of old? He was weary of his labours then, I think. Now he is recovering.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z This occupation, as well as reading the morrow’s pleas, was what used to call him off to labour every evening, to solitude and silence in the Justice Room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There were bottles and bowls and platters laid beside them, as if they had just eaten well, and now rested from their labour. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Squealer made excellent speeches on the joy of service and the dignity of labour, but the other animals found more inspiration in Boxer’s strength and his never- failing cry of “I will work harder!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by their own labour; and there were very many of them, and their appetites were always good. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In addition to all his other labours he was busy directing the cleaning up and restoring of Bag End; but he was often away in the Shire on his forestry work. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully as I could. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He saw ahead of him the heavy labour of rebuilding the windmill from the foundations, and already in imagination he braced himself for the task. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When I had entered he was sweeping the shop, and he had sweetened his labours by sweeping over me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Often blocked or destroyed by the tumults of the Mountain’s furnaces, always that road was repaired and cleared again by the labours of countless orcs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘The labour would be hard and long: there are no stones that we could use nearer than the water-side,’ said Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As if in answer to his wish, Sir Grummore paused in his labours. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Joseph listened to Albert’s laboured breathing and the occasional car that passed outside, and realized the noises were all wrong. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And thereafter, he declared, so much labour would be saved that the animals would only need to work three days a week. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a labour that demanded feats of strength worthy of Hanuman. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I have heard,” said Nathan, “that labour is required of you not here, but in the island of Ceylon.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Théoden opened his eyes, and they were clear, and he spoke in a quiet voice though laboured. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The hosts of the American leftwing podcast Chapo Trap House are facing the first hurdle in their European tour: organised labour. 'We just want to make fun of Toby Young!': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z During labour, the contractions stopped and the doctor couldn't find the baby's heartbeat. Experience: I dreamed a symphony, then composed it 2013-05-18T07:00:02Z And though Miller clearly understands both the claim's questionable status and its relevance to his own life's work, he's too tactful and intelligent a writer to labour the point. Lovesong by Alex Miller 2010-10-02T13:44:00Z Like the trafficked children on the streets, they too are forced into unpaid labour, thereby earning a double income for the orphanage owners. 'Closing orphanages isn’t enough': the centres supporting children and families in Uganda 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Promised new lives with families, most ended up in institutions, often treated as slave labour. The son also rises: Jim Loach directs his first film 2011-03-31T22:00:02Z Throughout, the conventional line-up of individual objects is interrupted by tight groupings of items that offer context, often with explicit political or social agendas, from labour rights to civil rights. Don’t be aloof 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The “spokesperson” explained the organization’s next forays into unethical remote labour management. Humor and media hoaxes put social justice ideas on the map 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z In 2010, the authorities also rushed through changes to labour laws designed to fend off demands from local unions for better working conditions. Hobbit makers face call to return subsidy money 'sucked from Kiwi taxpayers' 2013-01-15T11:19:05Z One of her brothers was a prisoner in a Nazi labour camp. Audrey Hepburn: an iconic problem 2011-01-20T21:30:02Z BBC camera crews recorded her labours for Victorian Pharmacy, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm; TV tie-in hardbacks followed. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z Cluttered dishes can seem fun and daring to misguided cooks labouring under the mistaken belief that accolades are given for effort. How to choose a great restaurant from reading the menu 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z In 1944 the deportations recommence, described as dispatch for "manual labour outside the ghetto". The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg ? review 2011-07-08T09:05:01Z It was also interrupted in May 1968 as a student revolt and labour protests swept across France. Popcorn, palm trees and face masks: Cannes rolls out drive-in cinema 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The parallels with the Catholic church are too obvious for me to labour. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z Walter also damages his hand, forcing him to abandon the toil of the harvest for intellectual labour helping Quill to chart the area. Harvest by Jim Crace – review 2013-02-14T08:01:02Z It feels like a linguistic labour of love. Hunderby: why this Julia Davis comedy is worth watching 2013-01-14T10:00:00Z In Namibia, a local activist says Chinese businessmen often pay their labour a third of the official rate. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This was a labour of love for Theron, who has a producer’s credit. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley's Frankenstein contains a kind of male labour for Victor Frankenstein, whose "toils" and "agony" bring his creation to life with "a convulsive motion". Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z Of the world's 27 million labour and sex slaves, two thirds are in India, Nepal and Pakistan. India and the US: a new wave of collaborative cinema 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The division of labour largely involves the distinction between wet and dry cleaning. Who does the housework? Five Guardian writers reveal all 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z There's no way those people are genuinely enjoying the signature mix of telegraphed whodunnits, laboured comedy and extended technology rants. Hatewatching: shouting about rubbish TV on Twitter 2012-06-22T23:05:00Z The kidnappings, until recently tolerated by the shipping industry and insurers, now more commonly involve murder, the retention of kidnapped crews to work as slave labour in future hijackings, and new levels of cruelty. Radio review: The Sea Gangsters 2011-04-13T07:00:03Z Not here, and even the hint of betrayal in Rebecca's final departure for Las Vegas is not laboured. Cannes review: The Bling Ring 2013-05-16T11:11:33Z A message that was far more subtle than last week’s laboured metaphor. Doctor Who Series 8 Episode 8 Review: 'Mummy On The Orient Express' 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Saito is the second world war commander of the Japanese jungle work camp and in charge of extending the Bangkok-Rangoon rail link across the Kwai using a labour force of conquered and humiliated British POWs. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z Yesterday Key declared that the new labour laws would be altered to recognise the difference between a contract worker and a movie production employee. Hobbit deal costs New Zealand changes in labour laws and $25m tax break 2010-10-27T16:06:00Z A universal basic income could, they argue, protect the increasing numbers working in an insecure labour market and moving between zero-hours contracts and part-time jobs. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z We can ruin it by being black, sick, poor, or rural – all factors that make a pregnancy or labour more dangerous. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Six years in development, the show is a labour of love for Dembina. Ivor Dembina gives parliament its first standup gig 2010-03-16T21:30:00Z Though the book labours under a critical apparatus that might have been thought de trop if the subject had been Wittgenstein, it is not helpful in telling us about, for example, Taylor's father. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z He became one of the thousands of servicemen used as slave labour to build the railway. 'Death railway' PoW dies aged 93 2012-10-08T19:40:39Z Former island nurse Helen says: ‘‘It’s a slower pace, but it’s labour intensive so your day is filled.” Turkfest: Ireland's little festival with a big heart – a photo essay 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The supply side of the tobacco industry is also the cause of a slew of other reparations including extreme poverty, dependency and diseases of tobacco farmers; child labour; deforestation. Bitter leaves: tobacco's devastating global legacy 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “And I had no idea about the hidden labour of childcare until I did that,” he says. ‘I had no idea about the hidden labour’: has the pandemic changed fatherhood for ever? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z In fact, like Garvey's north-west peers – who laboured for a decade and a half before breaking through with The Seldom Seen Kid – Kloot's history has been one of recurring disasters. Exclusive: Listen to I Am Kloot's Sky at Night 2010-07-01T12:00:00Z Attempts to delay the labour were unsuccessful and doctors explained that her babies were coming and at risk of complications. ‘I never knew whether I’d take my two premature babies home’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Figes described it as an "absolutely unique and uncensored account" from the labour camps. Orlando Figes to give away royalties from next book 2011-08-16T12:24:51Z One thing nobody could dispute about Enter the Void is its sheer labour intensity. Gaspar No?: 'What's the problem?' 2010-09-16T21:29:00Z Scorsese was at one stage so startled by his star’s laboured breathing that he shut down production, fearing for his health. The 10 best actor transformations 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z He is recruited to track down the members of the insurgency or else his family will be sent to a forced labour camp. Colony: sci-fi show realistically depicts America under occupation – by aliens 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z While Reef had been seriously ill in hospital as a toddler, their younger son, Finn, had been born two months early when the stress of Reef’s cancer treatment had kick-started Kate’s labour. Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z He "is patently labouring under the misapprehension that being homosexual is worthy of disapprobation and censure," he wrote. The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week . . . 2011-03-24T22:30:03Z Amazon has also “actively fought” against labour unions getting involved with worker disputes, something Oliver finds concerning. John Oliver on Amazon: 'A system that squeezes people lowest on the ladder' 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z There was also a strong solo appearance from Thandiswa, but she sounded unexpectedly laboured joining Simon for Under African Skies, the only disappointment of the night. Paul Simon's Graceland 2012-07-16T11:16:50Z “I don’t want any more shots. I’m not in labour. This could be so bad for the baby.” ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z He offers to make Woltz’s pending labour problems go away in exchange for casting Johnny in a "war picture." The cutthroat casting of "The Godfather": life imitates mob movie 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Theatre Babel's staging, by contrast, seemed laboured; you left the theatre suspecting the play was better than the production. Educating Agnes ? review 2011-04-12T17:29:03Z The result of their labours was the Military Survey of Scotland, a great map that laid the foundations for the Ordnance Survey. History in the making: a Roman map… and an 18th-century hoax 2013-07-19T07:30:01Z The first by "your healthcare professional" at the pregnancy booking appointment, and pack three on the labour ward. Alice Roberts: Why are Bounty reps allowed on maternity wards? 2013-04-27T23:01:03Z A basic income guarantee could offer individuals more financial security and control over their employment choices and thus address the racialized, classed and gendered disparities prominent in food systems labour. Basic income could help create a more just and sustainable food system 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z When my father’s plane turned for home on his final mission, my mother was in labour and knew nothing of the night-fighter attack over the North Sea that claimed his life. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z With the knowledge and consent of Wilberforce and friends, they were taken to Sierra Leone and put to slave labour in Freetown. Wilberforce was complicit in slavery 2010-08-03T11:59:00Z Briggs, speaking to the Observer, acknowledges that he has become part of a global merchandising campaign, but confesses that it's a labour of love, a devotee's homage to the pencil-sharpener salesman from Chicago. Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z In making nearly every other member of the cast female as well, the writers might have been accused of labouring that point. Getting On is not just funny – it's radical, profound, a masterpiece 2012-11-23T19:00:01Z There was a labour involved in dating her, and therefore, a financial burden. ‘High maintenance’ is a red flag on dating apps. Women are still expected to shrink themselves 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Time was that you could get headhunted by Lehman Bros with a geography degree, but with real jobs now thin on the ground, even finding decent slave labour has become problematically competitive. Being an unemployed female graduate, as not seen in the movies 2012-07-03T14:27:43Z That, to me, is a denial of the basic point of making a cocktail – your labour and ingenuity adds value – but you see the principle. How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z It shows a neat division of labour in the creation of pointless products, with implications that reach way beyond the beauty industry, to capitalism's mindless cycle of production and consumption. Artist of the week 191: Mika Rottenberg 2012-05-24T11:40:15Z The crowd went delirious and grew even wilder when Springsteen laboured the point by launching into the next song, Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom". Book asks if Bruce Springsteen helped bring down the Berlin Wall 2013-06-26T16:43:18Z Because the truth is that, in swanky LA hotels such as this, they are usually the ones cleaning, cooking and labouring behind the scenes, not getting the VIP treatment. Gael García Bernal: ‘Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. It’s hate discourse’ 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z His mother laboured in a quarry carrying rocks, and at night his older brother would catch a train to a nearby town to earn a few rupees lifting bales. Nicole Kidman on Lion and adoption: 'It's about the simplicity of love' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z His hands are shaking and his speech is laboured; he keeps losing his thread. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But after three days of waiting for labour to start, there was meconium in my discharge that became very green. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z But it is the bathroom that offers an oblique clue as to where he is off to next: period posters announcing long-ago labour strikes – one by police, another by a newspaper guild. David Simon: ‘If you’re not consuming porn, you’re still consuming its logic’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Earlier, until he left in disgust at their labour espionage work and became a communist, he worked for the Pinkerton detective agency. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z Trump has been naming and shaming US companies seeking to take advantage of cheaper labour in the emerging countries, while Brexit is an example of the idea that migration needs to be controlled. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Photograph: Toy Retailers Association/PA Pumpaloons, £20 This year, why not give your children the gift of pointlessly back-breaking manual labour? You won't see this lot on Jonathan Ross's 100 Greatest Toys! 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z Black Panther was cathartic because of how it violently confronted America’s political history, when enslaved Africans were commodified as free labour. ‘It’s not a movie, it’s a moment’: Crazy Rich Asians takes on Hollywood 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z My dad got me a job for one summer harvesting sugarcane in Belle Glade, Florida – it was the most gruelling physical labour I’ve ever done. Q&A: Burt Reynolds 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z He is simply saying that skilled manual labour – or indeed any craft – is one path to a fulfilling life. The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker 2011-08-01T15:08:33Z The film was clever at showing the precariousness potentially associated with the dramatic changes that are happening in the labour market. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Of course, when I do such labours in the garden or around the house, like digging or raking, I tend to be irritable, so perhaps I'm dreaming. Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z When she said Lyndsay was in labour and I was going to be a father, I couldn’t speak. My girlfriend and I thought she had appendicitis – then she gave birth 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Any other business that can't produce revenue to cover all costs, including labour, and profit goes out of business. Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Having dismissed ethical consumers as tedious weirdos, study participants were less angry about child labour than before. Ethical consumers are unattractive and boring, aren’t they? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Anglicans are racked by doctrinal disputes and an increasing sense of futility, and Catholics labour under the yoke of a reactionary papacy and the merciless demands of celibacy. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z They're never funny, always laboured, and yet sometimes you find yourself being drawn irrevocably towards them. TV review: Sherlock 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z And sometimes even after investigating labour practices I’d finally pull the trigger, only to have the product fall apart a few short months later. Buy Me Once: the online shop for stuff that lasts, from T-shirts to tweezers 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z But though he dives in with relish, Wayne mostly comes up empty-handed: metaphors are laboured, tired or just remarkably offputting. Lil' Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being II – review 2013-03-28T22:30:02Z It would be a nice treat for after labour. Family life 2012-06-29T23:05:03Z “They’re a relic of the performance, or the labour that was done that evening. When you put them all together, the amount of labour that goes into doing drag – performing femininity, even – becomes very clear.” Workin’ it! How female drag queens are causing a scene 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Instead, Charles was sent home because of new visitor restrictions brought about by the outbreak, and Simmons was sent to a labour ward on her own. 'I started shouting at the midwives': the stress of giving birth under lockdown 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In this way, we are becoming prisoners of our social appetites – slaves to me-versus-you interactions, through which we perform free, futile emotional labour that profits capitalism, but can only make us unhappier. Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z One of her best pieces was a hilarious essay on "maintenance", the daily labours women must devote to their bodies just to keep one step ahead of time. My hero: Nora Ephron by Elaine Showalter 2012-06-29T21:55:19Z Child labour was ended, a sickness fund established and an education provided. Scottish town that changed the world fights for its rights 2013-03-31T00:06:09Z Oliver used a recent example of a textbook that referred to slave labour as chores, “a euphemism par with calling Hitler a bestselling author with a side hustle”. John Oliver: US schools must avoid 'impulse to downplay the horrors of slavery' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Questions are instigated about the politics of labour, architecture, ethnic identity, the law and ecology. This week's new art picks 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z She was only allowed to visit after dark and the arrival of an ambulance to transport her, in labour, to the nursing home, horrified her mother. The love at the heart of our family’s wartime secret 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The Heights is a working farm, a place of labour; the Grange is about leisure, luxury, relaxation. Stuart Evers' top 10 homes in literature 2012-07-18T15:10:43Z Slavery was at heart an economic, labour-centric phenomenon, so, once it was abolished, the midsection offered a get-out clause that was eagerly embraced by mostly southern states in need of cheap labour. Ava DuVernay on the legacy of slavery: ‘The sad truth is that some minds will not be changed’ 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z That way, right, to the labour camps and the rest of what then happened to me, that I had to go through. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The look on his face and his body language sent a clear message; here was a man that was excited, proud and happy with the fruits of his labour. 20 best vegetarian recipes: part 3 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The temptation is to elude this labour by "making things up", by escaping into faux-realities or unrealities that are the unmediated projections of the subjective self. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z Some of the analysis of the Brexit vote argued that people in rural parts of the country felt their employment was under threat from migrant labour from the EU. Metrosexual, hipster, spornosexual: Why do we keep redefining men? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z He helped prove that the price of a commodity was determined by how much labour time had gone into it—which showed how workers were exploited. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z At first Lev was set to dragging logs to the "wood combine", crushing labour which he would probably not have survived for long. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z China's problem today is not overpopulation, but a shrinking labour force that now threatens the country's future growth. China's barbaric one-child policy 2013-05-06T06:00:01Z When I went into labour, I called him. My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Like the boxes of Joseph Cornell, Matton's works are evidently the fruit of intense labour. Mini artists' studios 2011-08-28T19:01:01Z The pain of labour was immediately buffered by that overwhelming and total love that sweeps in the moment a mother holds her baby. A letter to… my stillborn daughter 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z But Sellars says the intent is to evoke labour pains - life-giving rather than death. Director Peter Sellars - shocking again in new Adams opera 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Independent film, a labour of love, turns out to be almost always a labour of loss. Are indie films just expensive blogs? 2013-01-17T18:30:01Z But at the end of October, the New Zealand government passed legislation to change labour laws and improve tax breaks to ensure production remained in the country. Hobbit filming finally under way 2011-03-21T11:16:04Z Now this former British Rail clerk's labour of love is a floatable proposition, with nearly half of its shares owned by Sony. Alan McGee on Creation, Oasis and cashflow – a classic from the vaults 2013-05-29T17:08:13Z Film critics today labour in a gloom and irrelevance Kael could not tolerate. The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s not just unskilled labour being done online. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Israelis may be discomfited to find that the secular Jewish labour movement, the Bund, was more popular than the Zionist movement in the inter-war years. Shtetl of honour 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z For us, that meant no scans, no doctors and 58 hours of labour in our lounge: just me, my husband, Flynn, and our friend Claire. Experience: I had a free birth 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z His greatest self-penned creation, absurdly pretentious poet Paul Hamilton, seems a labour not so much of love but of sweat, with Eldon saying he "gets about one new poem a year" for him. Talk about Kevin 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z For years German companies such as Volkswagen and Bertelsmann denied any involvement with the exploitation of slave labour under the Third Reich, even as the steady drip of disclosures showed otherwise. Jimmy Savile: the BBC must opt for full disclosure to draw a line under its past 2012-10-09T14:59:01Z Failure to show a regular job in their pass book when it was inspected by police could see them sent to labour farms or prison. The Hogarth of Soweto: Ephraim Ngatane 2010-03-19T14:11:00Z Investors appreciate its cheap labour, long coastline, numerous ports and pro-business policies—all assets that will grow increasingly important as Chinese labour costs rise. Striving for unity 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But then this series is a labour of love for Gatiss and we always tend to take the things we love more seriously than we perhaps should. TV review: Whitechapel, Horizon and A History of Horror With Mark Gatiss 2010-10-19T07:00:00Z In 1951 Bevan, by now the labour minister, resigned from the cabinet when it voted to bring in charges for dental care, spectacles and prescriptions. Nye Bevan's dream: a history of the NHS 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The depressing thing about many of the issues raised in the show, from abortion rights to division of labour within the home, is that they are still raging today. Rose Byrne: ‘You understand why feminists are furious – we’re still talking about this?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The job involves manual labour: digging drains, building fences, mixing cement and fixing broken tractors. They got their dream job away from it all – but what happened next? 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z We should also avoid cheerleading for Hancock 2, simply because the original was so laboured and muddled that nobody in their right mind would want to sit through another one. Where there's a Will Smith there's a way to a sequel 2012-06-14T12:37:05Z We eat animals, we use them for labour, but then we keep them in our home as objects upon which we project love that we maybe lack elsewhere. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z While he was labouring, a cargo cult had grown up around Rodriguez in South Africa. Rodriguez – review 2012-11-18T00:06:15Z However, she added: “I do think that managing anxiety associated with obligatory chores is emotional labour.” ‘I think my husband thinks Santa does it all’: why women dread the emotional labour of Christmas 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z But as we work backwards through Tod's life, beginning in reverse with all his labours in American hospitals, we begin to sense why. Ten of the best bad doctors in literature 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z To abandon the labours of a century is to betray those who came before us as well as generations yet to come. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z The labour was seven hours; her mother, Natalie, 24, a seamstress, was stoic throughout, helped by two midwives in pale pink scrubs. 'We have a shower for pain relief': can Haiti's young midwives save a new generation? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Certainly not this decade, and yet it still labours on year after year. House is axed ? but did it cling to life for too long? 2012-02-09T11:24:12Z He has attempted to engage protesters over labour rights in Abu Dhabi, where the design he completed in 2006 for another Guggenheim Museum remains unbuilt. A life in shapes 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z He was forced to do hard labour, moving and stacking coal, and was given so little food he was always on the brink of collapse. In the heat of the sun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The bourgeois have very good reasons for imputing supernatural creative power to labour . Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z She has to spread her labours over Sandstone's complete output, and she valiantly sent review copies off to all the papers. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z The result is rich, gamey, abundant; a labour of love. Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z With the original gardeners and activists ageing, and maintaining the gardens being a labour- and time-intensive task, recruiting the next generation of volunteers will be vital for ensuring the gardens continue to bloom. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z From the elemental to the man-made, the anti-psalmist then turns to "the twilight labour of water works". Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z As a student her father, who before she was born spent 10 years imprisoned in a labour camp, was able to visit Canada. They became millionaires and retired at 31. They think you can do the same 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z They have contributed to chronic underpayment of farmers and farm workers, child labour practices, loss of biodiversity and water pollution. The true cost of food: High grocery prices are not the root issue 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z As you also might expect, it's perhaps a shade too self-important and prone to grandstanding – a would-be state-of-the-globalised-nation, full of corrupt bosses and embattled immigrant labour. Cannes film festival diary: Certified Copies and Biutiful discoveries 2010-05-18T14:09:00Z The study also found that doctors still often bind women to their beds and forbid them from walking around, or leave them without food or drink during labour. Use of caesarean sections growing at 'alarming' rate 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The immediate consequences of the study “may be a change of the clinical guidelines to recommend induction of labour no later than at 41+0 gestational weeks”, its author concludes. Post-term pregnancy research cancelled after six babies die 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z One lady, an asylum seeker, asked me for baby names during labour. Experience: I'm a translator for terrorists and criminals 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Can you honestly say that the entire premise isn't based on a laboured pun and awful, fake blokey banter? Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z There are more than 50 licensed growers in Okanogan now who are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars locally on equipment, labour and construction work. Marijuana millionaires cashing in on cannabis legalisation 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The drawing as grand machine or mere demonstration of skill and effort doesn't interest me: it declares its labour before anything else. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z They wear training bumps and learn about labour in grim detail, so that they're prepared to be a helpful presence in the delivery room. TV highlights 18/03/2013 2013-03-18T07:00:09Z As Zhenya and her colleagues learn that they are to be transferred from prison to a labour camp, they rejoice and surge towards the front wall of their cage with rapturously smiling faces. Into the Whirlwind - review 2011-01-23T17:59:34Z We do our best to get along, to stay engaged with each other and with the shared labour. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z Afterwards, when I was confident enough to share, I put pictures of labour and the placenta on my Instagram page which I describe as radicalising motherhood; encouraging other women to own their journeys. Experience: I had a free birth 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “I even managed to hide it from my family. When I went into labour I told my father I had back pain, but he soon discovered I was having a baby.” Rising teenage pregnancy rates in east Asia-Pacific spark health warning 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z "Yesterday, a 20-year-old law student who was simply peacefully demonstrating was sentenced to three and a half years in a labour camp." The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z It’s not just manual labour that’s ripe for automation: white-collar jobs are also at risk as software becomes more sophisticated. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z My father has smoked since he was six, joined the Marines when he was 17, and has had a tough labouring life with a classically working-class diet. Getting fit in middle age: a marathon addict, a couch potato and others share their pain 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z And, even worse still, the dead twin may precipitate labour, in which case the unaffected twin may not make it, either. New man becomes new dad – the very hard way 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z As we enter his Dorset home, his walking is laboured and his left hand permanently coiled. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z However, we were only five minutes into the journey when, according to Rob, my breathing became very laboured. Terry Pratchett: signing books was nearly the death of me 2012-11-24T08:00:53Z The labour movement has, adds Texas, “been one of the primary drivers of integration in the United States”. 'We just want to make fun of Toby Young!': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet private companies making profits from prisoner labour in the UK is nothing new. Prisoners want work, but undercutting civilian pay is not the answer 2012-08-08T10:00:00Z Lewis Hine tricked his way into mines and factories in order to expose the scandal of child labour. Watching you 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z And Donna's a second-timer but finds labour terrifying due to her "control issues". Tonight's TV highlights: Horizon: Science Under Attack 2011-01-24T00:04:00Z “There are a number of factories now that are running out of labour supply, experienced workers who can manufacture the vaccines to sufficient quality,” she said. Most poor countries will not achieve mass Covid-19 immunisation until 2024 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z As a metaphor for capitalist misuses of labour, it's subtly eloquent. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists ? review 2012-05-20T18:47:54Z “They monitored my bump a lot as they were worried I would go into labour.” 'My husband missed the first week': having a baby in lockdown 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z It was a short, fierce and mind-blowing natural labour. How the hardest year of my life ended my catastrophic thinking 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Automation is fundamentally the substitution of capital for labour. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Both the state department of labour and the occupational safety and health administration are keeping close eyes on things, in particular Ezralow's aerial battles that take place above the heads of the audience. Spider-Man the Musical: The webbed crusader comes out fighting 2011-01-26T17:31:15Z If you’re not a devotee of all-American pop goddess Taylor Swift, you might wonder what’s to be gained from a documentary covering her life and labours over the course of recording her last two albums. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z This is noir with added value: Lehane is terrific on family ties and at conveying the buzz of a city powered by immigrant labour of often dubious legality. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z Do I want to do emotional labour at 10pm on a Wednesday? 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z He then finds his wife dead and his daughter taken, gets captured, and wakes up in a desert labour camp. Game on: Inversion – preview 2012-07-05T21:01:01Z Set up in 2003, the magazine is a labour of love, an island of wholeheartedness in a rising sea of snark; even the name expresses the sincerity of its founders' intentions. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z Household labour isn’t just performing tasks, it’s knowing which tasks need to be performed. 'In lockdown, I do far more domestic work. How do I convince my partner his laziness is harming me?' 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Wilde was convicted and given two years, with hard labour. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z Well, not to labour the point, here's another example of literary Globish at work. Miguel Syjuco shows how prizes are literary powerhouses ? not reviews 2010-05-10T11:56:00Z When scripting his own films he tries to compose them like a musical score, labouring for them to work "vertically as well as horizontally". Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80' 2012-11-15T20:00:08Z So it comes as something of a surprise to discover that many first-time mothers now prepare for labour with bikini waxes, a heavy Immac session or other forms of deforestation. Neat pubic hair? Pregnant women should never be pressured to get a brazilian 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The new forms of capitalism emphasise short-term labour and institutional fragmentation; the effect of this economic system has been that workers cannot sustain supportive social relations with one another. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z My breathing was laboured and erratic, my head spinning and the tips of my feet and fingers numb. My swimming odyssey: ‘It felt like a last chance to prove what I was capable of’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Today, synthetic oxytocin, also called Pitocin or Syntocinon, is often used to induce labour and to help new mothers who have trouble with milk let-down. Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011-08-20T23:08:00Z We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. John Green: why I'll never self-publish 2013-06-06T14:13:57Z You would look at how much money you would spend on different input, and also look at how your production and labour are going to work within regulations.” The inside dope: five tips for growing and selling marijuana like a pro 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z So when Courtney went to her local hospital with a bad back – a precaution insisted on by her mother – she was shocked to learn she was in established labour. ‘I never knew whether I’d take my two premature babies home’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z King says the world is already starting to become more protectionist in terms of movement of capital and labour. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Should they be forced into hard labour in the Colonies or be publicly executed? How Darwin’s sexual selection theory co-stars in "The Handmaid’s Tale" 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z A third of the labour force is unemployed and schools are often compared unfavourably to apartheid education. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z The catch-22 is that if theatres were to stop using free labour then some excellent smaller venues, such as the Finborough theatre for instance, would simply be unable to function. Noises off: Theatre of the exploited 2010-04-15T15:00:00Z Two weeks had gone by, and I hadn’t gone into labour. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z All this could have made an interesting film, but the dialogue and direction are just so agonisingly laboured. Film review: The Last Seven 2010-08-26T21:10:00Z Both usages imply an antipathy to urban dwellers who were spared the labour of agricultural work. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z Yes, it's laboured and fusty in the extreme to watch a schoolmaster taking the register in a class made up entirely of children with rude words for surnames. Comedy gold – Rowan Atkinson Live 2013-02-28T16:26:02Z Not to labour the parallels or deviations, the surprise was the degree of overlap. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z The Ontario ministry of labour is now investigating the collapse of the stage, which Bluesfest rents from an outside firm. Cheap Trick 'thankful' to be alive after Ottawa Bluesfest stage collapse 2011-07-19T09:46:55Z Then she was asked to appear in a film about child labour in the rag trade. TV review: Kids With Guns: Stacey Dooley Investigates 2010-10-08T05:45:00Z Helen Simmons, a 28-year-old film producer from London, went into labour with her second child on the evening of 30 March – exactly a week after Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown. 'I started shouting at the midwives': the stress of giving birth under lockdown 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z They were, to some extent, always alliances: alliances with certain kinds of liberal and leftwing intellectuals, with minorities, religious and cultural minorities, possibly many countries with different kinds of working, labouring poor. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z For more than a century zealous popes and bishops had laboured to extricate the church from its immemorial subjugation to kings and barons. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z As clerical labour became ever more widespread, management theorists strove to perfect it: for Frederick Taylor, the pioneer of “scientific management”, any wasteful habits or movements could be eliminated by closely monitoring and timing employees. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Good luck to the Wareings, I say, with their contented division of labour, and good luck to any judge adjudicating in further Depp and Heard disputes. Winona Ryder can defend Johnny Depp - but it doesn’t tell us much 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z But his most influential political writings centred on his increasing certainty that the European labour movement had ceased to be capable of bearing the transformational role assigned to it by earlier Marxists. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z Now he's also chef patron of a restaurant in a boutique country hotel labouring under the name of Sanctum on the Green. Britain's Youngest Head Chef 2013-04-18T06:00:08Z But alongside this “second shift” – the labour women perform at home once they leave their paid work – there is a third shift, which is less often acknowledged. ‘I think my husband thinks Santa does it all’: why women dread the emotional labour of Christmas 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “I wasn’t scared about the labour,” she says. 'We have a shower for pain relief': can Haiti's young midwives save a new generation? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z The US maintains a military base on Kwajalein Island, where the menial labour is carried out by low-paid workers who live on another nearby island, Ebeye. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The big top takes eight hours of hard labour to put up, and the generators go off at midnight to save fuel. The Circus – review 2012-06-30T06:00:01Z Alas he found one notion and laboured it. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z They are required to give, not just their labour and their time, but some kind of emotional supplement – to smile, join in, have fun. Tenth of December by George Saunders – review 2013-01-03T16:10:01Z The final notes of irony and repudiation may be laboured and obvious, but this is an intriguingly intuitive and atmospheric movie. Cannes review: The Bling Ring 2013-05-16T11:11:33Z He finished half of his six months of manual labour, which included roadside clean-up and graffiti removal. Chris Brown to stay on probation 2012-02-10T09:04:44Z It offers a clear-eyed, feminist-socialist perspective on women and labour, but there is something darker and wilder lurking in its witchy psychic landscape. Fen ? review 2011-03-09T19:01:00Z The details of Martin's work really count: the wobble in a coloured pencil line or the evidence of handmade, repetitious labour in her paintings are reduplicated by the imperfections. Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell 2013-04-11T10:35:32Z A report by the LAdistrict attorney's office found that there was "no credible, competent or verifiable evidence that defendant Brown performed his community labour". Chris Brown could face jail over minor car accident 2013-05-28T11:08:46Z Formerly Tsar Nicholas II's personal detective, Inspector Pekkala was thrown into a labour camp come the revolution, but reprieved nine years later when Stalin realised he needed his special talents after all. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z It opens up the opportunity to see the latest fruits of each couturier's labour to a wider audience, democratising the industry in a way that it isn't usually used to. The Enchanted Palace makes art of fashion 2010-04-02T10:52:00Z "All that hard work of the sentences is labouring to render the story right," she says. Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011-02-28T00:04:00Z I refused to weigh the risks; I would simply not go into labour, nor would I develop an infection. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The major concern for the government and employers in London is that people who do not earn enough to meet extortionate rents will leave, hollowing out the city and threatening its labour market and culture. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z At least Africans have stuff – copper, cobalt, cheap labour – that the Chinese want. TV review: The Chinese are Coming, Fame in the Frame, Cougar Town, Chimps of the Lost Gorge, The Big C 2011-02-09T08:00:06Z The New Statesman's critic wrote: "Tonight is about watching a talented person labouring under levels of fame and physical pressure so severe they turn you from a performer into a panting automaton." 'We were all Justin Bieber fans and now we hate him' 2013-03-05T19:03:37Z Women still do far more domestic and care labour than men. Why feminist horror novel "The Stepford Wives" is still relevant, 50 years on 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z A shrinking population will create a labour crisis, limiting economic development. Why young people in South Korea are staying single despite efforts to spark dating 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z So we do the housework ourselves, which under the circumstances means a division of labour: nothing set in stone, we don’t have a rota, but it seems to work itself out. Who does the housework? Five Guardian writers reveal all 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z To watch an episode is to witness a labour of love take flight, and having to leave Documentary Now! off my list has broken my heart. Documentary Now! Why you should make this the next TV show you watch 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z I worked in the labour ward, until I was offered the morphine. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z In my own study of six educators’ experiences of emotional labour, my participants reflected on why they stayed passionate about their work. Heartbreak becomes burnout for teachers when work is turbulent 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Polish nobles were deprived of cheap agricultural labour, Austrian and Hungarian military officials of conscripts. Backwards and forwards 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z It'd be much harder to play a woman in labour – all that grimacing and – in Call the Midwife than, say, a shoplifter on Law and Order. Call the Midwife: an unexpected PBS hit with another Brit import 2013-04-26T14:04:18Z In the 1920s, Niebuhr came to prominence for speaking out against racism and the Ford motor company's labour policies. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z What they did there looked less like labour than like love. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z "Most models start their adult careers as minors and they labour in an unregulated business knowing that they are highly replaceable," says Ziff. Fashion's real victims 2012-02-13T19:30:01Z Despite simplicity of style, Patrimony is an epic, with Roth as a Hercules labouring on his father's behalf. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z The reattachment of the subjective self to the material object is where much of the labour of writing lies – labour because, in this one sense, writing feels like the opposite of being alive. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z Pain reduces women in labour to wordlessness; others are only partially helpful bystanders. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z This is due to cheap labour courtesy of the gig economy. Would you live in a house without a kitchen? You might have to 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z It's sort of a protest against cheaply manufactured clothing, the slave labour that goes into it, the coarsening of modern society . Learning to love Agatha Christie 2010-10-01T07:16:00Z "By the end, you should at the very least be labouring under the delusion that you speak the same language." And ... emote! How to succeed at auditions 2013-02-24T18:00:02Z A mismanaged 36-hour labour over a weekend night shift left her fighting for her life. What shall I do with the sympathy cards people sent when my baby died? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z But I am genuinely a bit tired, after 10 series, of his charmlessness, his laboured one-liners, and his misplaced penguins. The Apprentice review – its the end of the line for Lord Sugar 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z At one point, she was forced to enlist as a child soldier, while her six siblings were sent to labour camps. Angelina Jolie to direct Pol Pot genocide drama for Netflix 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Did her brief foray into manual labour make her feel lucky to be an actress? The rise of Andrea Riseborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z And its attempt to reconstruct a heroic story of American socialism runs the risk of overlooking the racist, patriarchal elements of US labour history. 'We just want to make fun of Toby Young!': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z It is said merely the thought of them during a performance of Aeschylus' The Eumenides sent women into premature labour. The Furies ? review 2012-02-12T17:49:34Z House prices are prohibitive in any place with a strong labour market. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “You have definitely ruptured. We’ll try to delay labour as long as possible.” ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z He was also bravely undemonstrative in his only leading role to date, as the labour leader and activist Cesar Chavez in the biopic of the same name. Michael Peña: 'I'm not funny. I just point out what's funny in others' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Myanmar, meanwhile, looks to America for cheap labour, and white American women undergo facial surgery to resemble the Asians buying up half of Brooklyn. Gloom with a view 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z His political consciousness was shaped to a great degree by his upbringing: his father was a political science professor and his mother by turns, a trade union activist, a labour lawyer and an environmental lawyer. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z In labour, he looks forlorn in a cerise nightie with a cute animal motif. The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z It would be labouring the point to explain that Arm Fall Off Boy really isn't a very good superhero. The not-so-super superheroes 2011-07-22T23:05:00Z His lifelong investment is instead in the traditional values of the conservative movement – that is, keeping labour cheap and threats to established wealth and big business at an absolute minimum. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z The cult crossover done good – even if it did feel a bit laboured during this final run, galloping towards those big "gross-out" set pieces. Me and My Monsters 2010-10-18T05:45:00Z A hut converted into a boat and a motorbike whose only waste-product is water rank among Simon Starling's transformative works exploring human labour, ecology and exchange. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z She founded her organisation in response to the number of women she knew who’d been refused pain relief during labour and ended up traumatised by the experience. ‘I can’t forget the horror of my son’s birth’ | Leah McLaren 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z OK, so less laboured than mine, but still a pun. TV review: Sherlock 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z Remember when the pregnant lady came into the emergency room with gunshot wounds and then went into labour? From The Simpsons to Nurse Jackie, the most useful (and useless) TV medics 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The only moment Motörhead really sound their age – or at least Lemmy's age, which is 65 – is on Rock 'N' Roll Music, a hoary bit of boogie that sounds rather laboured. Mot?rhead: The W?rld Is Yours ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:01Z This analysis is somewhat misguided, as there is little evidence that migrant labour actually does negatively affect employment prospects. Metrosexual, hipster, spornosexual: Why do we keep redefining men? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Still, better to start something, even if it is a labour of love. Letters: No go leads to no show when it comes to the arts 2011-04-10T23:05:05Z After the horrors of the pregnancy, McConnell says, the actual labour was wondrous. The dad who gave birth: ‘Being pregnant doesn't change me being a trans man’ 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z They ought indeed to beat a Slovenia team who laboured to vanquish Algeria, and fill their boots to boot. SA2010 Match of the Day Live 2010-06-23T08:21:00Z I realised that I might be in labour when I was watching my cousins’ softball practice. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z There has to be a sense of inevitability in terms of what happens, almost like a natural event, but the fact is every word is enormously laboured over. Philipp Meyer: 'We don't have a good context for where we come from as Americans' 2013-07-21T08:30:00Z We attribute this attitude to repression & to the physical disabilities under which he labours – you see he had his pocket picked when he was young, if you see what I mean. African cats and American espionage – Roald Dahl's letters due in 2016 2013-07-25T09:10:30Z Subsequently he hardly left the place, but for a few short trips, establishing a studio where his two sons and a dozen or so apprentices laboured using methods akin to an assembly line. Cranach and His Time ? review 2011-03-08T13:59:01Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton In just a few days, the Edinburgh fringe will be in full swing and I'll have done my yearly hard labour down in the dark in Traverse Two. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-08-02T12:42:00Z It’s almost as if TV execs are labouring under the sexist notion that all women like musicals. Please stop the beat: why we've had enough of musical episodes 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union of the 1920s was an impoverished state dotted with institutes of labour, health and maternity clinics, mental health services, housing offices and countless censuses. Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z In the 20th century they became part of the working class, labour, the proletariat. Victorian art, the sentimental poor ? and Cameron's Britain 2010-10-26T14:33:00Z It sounds a bit like the breathing thing that doesn’t help when you’re in labour. Fit in my 40s: ‘It’s more than yoga – it’s a complete system for loving yourself’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z When a pumpkin is wasted, the water, energy and labour used to grow and distribute it is also wasted. Pumpkin waste: Three ways to stop your leftover lantern becoming a Halloween horror story 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Additional capital and labour were long considered the main factors. Multiplier effects 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z “But if we restructured the labour market so that it was less segregated, and at the same time improved wage floors, there’s no reason why automation can’t work for all of us.” Why automation is a feminist issue 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Unlike “real men who did real work”, they spent their sedentary days handling the paperwork generated by manual labour elsewhere. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Then my pregnant daughter calls: “It’s started Mum, I’m in labour.” Thank you to ... Iggy Pop, for showing everyone how to be more alive 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Nobody is there for the woman in labour at that point, you are not there, the nurses are not there. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z Wonder said any new rules ought to honour those "who labour to create the great works that enlighten and nourish our minds, hearts and souls". Stevie Wonder lobbies UN over audiobooks for the visually impaired 2010-09-21T10:40:00Z I didn't want to leave people with the cheesiness of a bad joke about "labour", but I did want to remind people that they are born into a political space. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z In some cases, they would even wear their partner’s clothes, groan and cry out, and complain of labour pains. ‘My oestrogen levels were all over the place’: when men have ‘sympathy pregnancies’ 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Nothing on the production seemed to gel: labour disputes, terrible weather, Taylor's persistent illness and her "naivety and compulsive behaviour". TV highlights 23/07/2013 2013-07-23T06:00:19Z The PHM holds the largest collection of trade union and other banners in the world, which, for thousands of people, had been a labour of love created in precious free time. The People's History Museum provides pieces of a global jigsaw 2010-12-04T10:59:00Z It suits him and Bloc Party's style – in fact, it sounds laboured and awkward when they seem to trying to shoot for Muse-level epicness. Readers' reviews: Muse, Kanye West Presents GOOD Music, Bloc Party 2012-10-01T17:17:06Z Undergoing an emergency caesarean section during the final stage of labour should be added to the list of risk factors for experiencing a premature birth in subsequent pregnancies, a study published on Thursday suggests. Caesarean section late in labour increases risk of preterm birth next time 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Look at a Lowry and you are looking at a rebuke to that class whose wealth depends upon the ceaseless labour of others. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z In terms of land, labour and materials, the costs of beekeeping are minimal and the returns potentially lucrative. Bees in Amazon 'are greatest ally to halt rainforest destruction' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Early next month the fully restored, five-metre-high cross will leave the laboratory in Florence, where Hilling and her team have laboured for so long, to take up its rightful position in the city's Ognissanti church. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z Andy Serkis returns as chimpanzee Caesar, the hero of the franchise, who finds himself in a secret labour camp where apes are being abused by a shaven-headed tyrant known only as the Colonel. The Godfather – but with chimpanzees: on set with War for the Planet of the Apes 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It has been described as "one of the great comb-overs of cinema history", but his latest film hairstyle was a labour of love for Stephen Fry. VIDEO: Hobbit hair scare for Stephen Fry 2013-12-07T00:57:28Z Stories circulated about stateless babies caught between countries, and about women who had died during labour. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z A misunderstanding in the labour exchange – Simon thinks that "Trainee Traction" might have something to do with working with nurses – means that, almost without choosing to, he becomes a trainee train driver. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z But this is the labour of love whose genesis predates her debut. Rumer: Boys Don't Cry – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z A one-tonne, £20,000 bell takes two weeks of concentrated labour and a batch of six smaller bells are cast every three weeks. How do I become ... a bellmaker? 2012-12-20T10:42:22Z The mere fossil trace of life in its simplest form would be the crowning achievement of generations of brilliant and diligent labour. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The verse embodies Ku Li's ceaseless labour and the ruggedness of his landscape. Poem of the week: Ku Li by Robin Hyde 2011-02-28T12:55:00Z Andy Black plays Mark, who infuriates the strikers by doing scab labour to save up for his studies. Young Hearts Run Free ? review 2011-03-31T22:06:01Z After 12 hours of labour, Leo was born. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z So through that long, famous summer, we laboured through The Entertainer, each bodged and fumbled chord turning Scott Joplin's lilting, whimsical rag into a lolloping, peg-legged dirge, music from a speakeasy in hell. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z Wages and working conditions take a hit, while the necessity of labour unions becomes a bone of contention between American and Chinese factions. Streaming: Netflix and the Obamas raise the stakes 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z For that, Soviet security arrested him after the war as a "fascist collaborator" and sentenced him to death, commuted to 10 years in a labour camp at Pechora in the far north. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z Under the Yongle emperor the Chinese capital moved from Nanjing and became established in Beijing, an undertaking that took several decades and armies of slave labour. Mighty Ming 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Grocery prices have taken a hike upwards for a host of reasons, including the rising costs of petrol, fertiliser and labour. How to save $50 off your food bill and still eat tasty, nutritious meals 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z If Tolstoy's labour scene is beautiful, ending with the appearance of the baby "like a small flame over a lamp", elsewhere in literature, birth gets nasty. Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z In the first few pages, Jacinta is in labour at home. Annabel by Kathleen Winter ? review 2011-04-12T16:15:00Z Now the fruits of their labour have arrived in the form of Malkmus's fifth post-Pavement album, produced by Beck and billed as a return to a more accessible style. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic: album stream 2011-08-15T11:47:31Z Negative thoughts were fiercely denounced — a message that echoed “the old religion’s condemnation of sin” and added “an insistence on the constant interior labour of self- examination.” Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z How can they compete with a shop that has access to free stock and labour, that prices books at lower levels, and is registered as a charity? A fond farewell to secondhand bookshops 2011-03-09T13:20:55Z In China “land, labour and capital are all underpriced for its favoured industries,” he writes. In need of a green revolution 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Jo spent the next four days in hospital, while we prayed labour wouldn’t begin. 'My mother-in-law called me Walter White': how magic mushrooms rescued me from grief 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The family home, then, was in exile, first in Manchuria and then a labour camp on the edge of the Gobi desert. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But he says he's never laboured at a film as long as Kon-Tiki, which is getting its international premiere in Toronto on Friday. Heyerdahl film sets sail to Toronto 2012-09-06T07:18:34Z There are like additional reasons behind the rise of the sampo generation in Korea, but young people’s job precarity, the overwork culture and a lack of equal divisions of labour at home are vital issues. Why young people in South Korea are staying single despite efforts to spark dating 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z We need a neat piece of legislation that says we only allow goods into our economic blocs which adhere to the same environmental and labour standards as we have inside them. Katharine Hamnett: ‘Getting old is a licence to kill’ 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The milk provides affordable nutrition and keeps hunger at bay, while the sugar provides energy for often tough manual labour. Chai latte: the all-conquering beverage causing a storm in a coffee cup 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He treats me to a 10-minute critique of global capitalism and inbuilt obsolescence and the iniquity of global labour markets. Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z So he labours on in an age when making English movies is said to be harder and harder, yet he makes it seem easier. David Thomson on Stephen Frears 2010-09-02T21:05:00Z Lee talks about the album's "physical birth" and the "nine months of hard labour" that it took to create it. Ethereal girl 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z They seem to believe we no longer appear to value the labour that it takes to read. Anakana Schofield: how to publicise a novel 2013-07-25T14:01:00Z The exploitation of women, their labour and their reticence to come forward... that goes right through societies, not just in the United States. Steven Spielberg: Oprah would make a brilliant president and I will back her 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z He is a creator of virtual worlds all the same, but what is important here is not just the end result, but the labour and dedication that underpins it. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z While women entering and participating equally in the labour market is commonplace in Nigeria, there are still certain lines of work considered solely the province of men, including computing and engineering. Breaking the code: how women in Nigeria are changing the face of tech 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Nora works with laboured, intricate exactitude on a small scale, as though her ideas do not deserve any bigger space. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-25T15:00:01Z In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City. Woody Guthrie: the return of a pariah 2012-07-12T20:30:00Z Mennonites live much like other set-in-stone religious groups: frugally and with a lot of hard labour and strict piety. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:09Z The pope was sympathetic and the ban on usury was conveniently rewritten in 1515, when the process was redefined as “a profit that is acquired without labour, cost or risk”. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z For now this sector of the labour market is largely unregulated but Standing says there is urgent need for an industry code of ethics and low-cost means of redress to protect vulnerable workers. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Schatz laboured around the clock, open to the risk of catching tuberculosis, in a basement laboratory, a place Waksman never visited. Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis by Peter Pringle – review 2012-06-29T21:52:01Z Joker counterbalances its inflammatory right-wing ethos with laboured mourning for the welfare state. Why Little Women should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Well, people tend to presume that career progression rests solely on the labour of individuals. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labour each day. Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z They lived like cavemen: they didn’t see a roof the whole time, took care of their sanitary waste, learned survival skills and did physical labour; some cut off their hair because they couldn’t bathe. Experience: I paid to have my daughter kidnapped 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z It does not include the cost to health care from diet-related diseases, current and future environmental impacts or social injustices, like underpaying farm workers or using forced child labour. The true cost of food: High grocery prices are not the root issue 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z But France pulled level with its higher birth rate, a slower rise in labour costs, a higher proportion of students in further education, lower energy costs and lower poverty rates. France, Germany switch off economies, switch on TVs for crunch tie 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z I am visiting because of a powerful exhibition of their photographs, called, with an irony that does not need labouring, "Home Sweet Home" – an attempt to capture what "home" means for them in this country. Asylum life 2011-08-13T23:05:05Z I rented a birth pool at the urging of my NHS homebirth midwife and when labour began I went around the house lighting scented candles. ‘I can’t forget the horror of my son’s birth’ | Leah McLaren 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z On the one hand, there's dissolution and degradation, and on the other there's dogged labour, compulsive honesty and the production of enduring art. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z I told him that I was in labour. My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z It also showed that, while women make up 47% of the labour force in the US, they occupy only one in five jobs featured in family films. Bella beats Bond as Twilight movie topples Skyfall from box-office peak 2012-11-24T16:22:26Z If I were still labouring in the shadow of, say, EM Forster, I would certainly be at pains to pretend that I wasn't. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z The key cost drivers in recent years have been the rental value of land and labour. Kenya’s maize price has doubled in a year: 6 ways to avoid a staple food shortage 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z His concerns focus on synthetic oxytocin used to induce labour, the increasing number of caesareans and the environmental conditions in the womb. Michel Odent: ‘How long can humanity survive now?’ 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z He served with the 4th Queen's Own Hussars during the second world war, spending four years in prisoner-of-war and labour camps in Austria. Dad's Army actor Clive Dunn dies 2012-11-07T16:39:49Z There is just enough to look at to distract from the laboured treatment. Mishap on the Med 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In the delivery room, at the end of a gruelling 90-hour labour, Ben Crane was handed his newborn son – but something was wrong. Learning to be a father: 'I could connect with another species but not my own son' 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z It was back with a vengeance in the 1980s, albeit against a backdrop of the considerable gains women made in education and the labour market during that decade. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z I have bit of a soft spot for this as I saw this being made; the patina of tea-time cheeriness masks a painstaking labour of love for everyone who worked on it. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z When Emin's work was done, she travelled to New York to show the older artist the fruits of her labours. Tracey Emin collaboration with Louise Bourgeois to go on show in London 2010-12-01T21:02:00Z Manchester became a centre of the universe, always feeding on cheap labour, mostly women, who, unlike slaves, were paid a wage, albeit a poor one. Spinning tales 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In his absence, the doctor ordered the nurses to give me a shot of terbutaline, a medication that can delay preterm labour for up to 48 hours. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Australia, Canada and New Zealand needed labour, and the British wanted to cut their welfare bill. Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise 2011-04-05T09:18:00Z This was a fabulous extravagance that only the Incas could afford: they made client tribes provide the labour for such projects as tribute, in what was effectively a cashless society. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In part because he hated communism, Niebuhr turned to socialism and became a strong advocate of organised labour. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z To tell the truth, it's a huge relief after the labour of songwriting. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z However, organic farming tends to have more intensive fuel and machinery use to mechanically break up weeds without herbicides or extra human labour to control weeds manually. Five misused food and farming terms — and what they really mean 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z There is a general decline in the value placed on labour. Anakana Schofield: how to publicise a novel 2013-07-25T14:01:00Z What we said: This is a labour of requited love for Cheadle, a subject he clearly feels passionate about that responds to his touch. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z These craftsmen perform a hallowed form of manual labour whose tactility is to be savoured at least as much as it is bemoaned. Diamond Street by Rachel Lichtenstein – review 2012-06-15T21:55:12Z All this while labouring over songs, gigging in innumerable small venues around London and searching for the right producer to guide her towards that elusive record deal. Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself' 2010-08-28T23:05:00Z She knows her own achievements are based on back-breaking labour – she's a professor of law at Yale – and wants her daughters to be as successful as her. Do (strict) Chinese mums know best? 2011-01-16T00:06:32Z Once apprehended, Bean was charged with common assault, and sentenced to 18 months' hard labour. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z Felix Landau, a Gestapo officer in charge of the Jewish labour force in Drohobycz, became aware of Schulz's talents as a draughtsman, and directed Schulz to paint murals on the walls of his child's playroom. Creating new books from old 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z She cannot labour, or understand "what a quota is, or a command, or a punishment". The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z It's good to read someone being scalding about tournament bonus schemes, "360-degree assessment", public‑sector outsourcing and neoliberal labour markets from the point of view of psychology rather than ideology or economics. Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James – review 2013-02-14T07:00:02Z Working on a building site – I realised manual labour wasn't for me. Q&A: Paul Weller 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Her son Cullan was eventually born on New Year’s Day by emergency caesarean section, after a labour that was traumatic from the beginning. ‘Yes he’s alive but I’m not OK’: the bloody truth about childbirth 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The next minute she is in the throes of a sympathetic labour, along with the other Handmaids: "We grip each other's hands, we are no longer single." Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z Next month, they release a carefully curated Best Of – Osman says on the phone, later, that Anderson has spent months labouring over it, making his own CDs to discover the best running order. Suede brushes up 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z He becomes a better person, but the film’s own comic miracle is that it doesn’t labour this point, despite Murray’s hilariously laborious ordeal, or even make it explicit. From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z But Lev took pride in Soviet achievements such as the Volga-Don canal, even though he knew it had been dug by the labour of slaves like himself. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z It doesn't shy away from the fact of Fox's death, without labouring the point. Family picture book reviews - in pictures 2013-05-10T08:00:00Z A speedboat breezes through as if to mock this slow and Sisyphean labour. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z "Before we start work, we must debate important philosophical questions, such as the value of labour and the meaning of Kumbaya." The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-03-10T20:00:01Z Their labours and protests show us their determination in the fight for democracy, so cherished in our western world. The People's History Museum provides pieces of a global jigsaw 2010-12-04T10:59:00Z Jessica relates the legend: her mum was labouring over other authors' books and finally snapped when she was asked to draw Simon the Superior Safety Pin. My famous illustrator parents 2013-05-11T07:00:22Z Owen would put an end to child labour and provide his workers with free medical care, high quality schooling, a workers' sickness fund and street lighting. Scottish town that changed the world fights for its rights 2013-03-31T00:06:09Z The house museum is a labour of love, created by an admirer of Magritte long before the city decided to honour one of Belgium’s best-known painters with an impressive gallery in its art quarter. 10 top tips from our Brussels correspondent 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z As certain as death — Or, says Heep, as certain As that school that taught me from 9 to 11 that labour Was a blessing; and from 11 to 1, that labour was a curse. | Life in the Balance 2014-05-02T15:27:56Z He and his brother Adolfus fled Lithuania in 1944, but were stopped on a train in Germany and imprisoned in a Nazi labour camp in Hamburg for eight months. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Better celebrate the mix-and-match of profound and frivolous, challenging and popular, unheard-of and familiar, wherever you find it – and not waste time labouring the difference between one institution and another. Should Edinburgh's festivals unite? 2010-07-09T16:18:00Z Several of her onlies embody the spoiled generation of the title, others are “labouring ants”. Only and lonely 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The Metropolitan Opera has said it must cut its labour costs. New York Met Opera unions agree deal 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z If that sounds grandiloquent, consider his history: Ai spent years of his childhood in a labour camp in the far north-west of China, on the edge of the Gobi desert. Ai Weiwei's world 2010-03-18T08:00:00Z A competent academic exercise, as an artistic creation the Mass is laboured and flat. Vaughan Williams premiere ? review 2011-03-07T22:15:00Z But the dishes on offer were "absolutely not" the fruits of the company's labours, said Cross quickly — the burgers were of finest wood pigeon, while the bugs had all been farmed specifically for human consumption. Grub's up: maggots and crickets on menu at Britain's first 'pestaurant' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It had looked like another room of the gallery at first, and you'd drifted into the circular space expecting more vividly coloured paintings of wheat fields and birch woods and simple peasant-folk labouring over ploughs. Jon McGregor We Wave And Call 2011-07-22T22:00:49Z "She could derail a project meeting in five minutes by singling out and labouring over the most inconsequential detail," writes Neuhart. There's no I in Eames 2010-10-26T09:47:00Z Drawings, however, are the direct manual labour of an artist sitting there, pressing down a point against a sheet of paper. Matisse, Munch and mischievous tapestries – the week in art 2012-06-08T15:16:38Z But the satire is obvious, laboured and unrewarding. Antiviral – review 2013-01-24T21:14:01Z The main difference from Barrie's original is the introduction of the Forth Bridge's construction, built using its own gangs of lost boys, whose childhoods were destroyed by their labour. Peter Pan 2010-05-02T20:30:00Z It’s lovely to have this great cohort of critics acknowledge our collective labours in this way,” Miller said. Mad Max: Fury Road voted year's best movie by international film critics 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Loach’s mature, unadorned style emerged with this account of a labour dispute in north-west England, a BBC Play for Today that is essentially a lightly fictionalised treatment of the 1970 Pilkington glass strike. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z My father would have agreed with the movie’s politics, so winning the best film Oscar for such a labour of love was a huge moment for me. How we made In the Heat of the Night 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Every word has been made to labour as well as delight. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z Half as many people are sufficiently active in affluent countries as in the developing world, where many people still labour every day. Quarter of world's population 'not active enough to stay healthy' 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z There had been a sharp increase in unemployment at the start of the decade and labour markets had not fully recovered by the time an even bigger slump began in 1929. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Babies left brain damaged because staff failed to realise or act upon signs that labour was going wrong. Leaked report exposes what could be NHS's worst ever maternity scandal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z For instance, when industrial labour was the destiny of more than two-thirds of the people in Britain, discipline, self-denial and abnegation were absolutely necessary for the machinery of production to function. Celibacy in an intensively sexualised world is a curious anomaly 2013-03-04T08:00:19Z The fruits of Eliot's unconscious labour in these years were strange indeed. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z For thousands of years the great civilisations / considered manual and mundane labour / a punishment. / Bevel by William Letford – review 2012-08-28T11:30:01Z “And Robin Hood is saying: ‘Tax collectors, stop hammering people who are struggling, who are labouring in the fields, who are working. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z When reshoots were required, she ended up clawing her way back to the set and into costume just four days after labour. Maya Rudolph: ‘I'm not a woman in comedy. I'm a comedian' 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z It was with season two, which looked at “the death of labour”, that Simon made clear his intention to “build a city”. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z However in 2000, a Channel 4 documentary reported on the use of child labour and slavery in cocoa production operations in Ghana and Ivory Coast – the source of most of the world’s chocolate. The dark truth about chocolate 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z But like everything in pop, there's a hierarchy, and while big-name stars can have their pick of the most emotive objects, singers knocking around pop's second division have to make do with more laboured tropes. Swim Deep, Gabrielle Aplin, Jai McDowall: this week's new tracks 2013-05-03T12:00:00Z It provided cooking and heating fuel for crofters for generations and the ritual labour of its slow extraction and drying became a crucial part of the culture of Gaelic-speaking Hebrideans. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z We have seen her in labour on TV, while reading a story about herself, sold to the press by her own mother. Kerry Katona: 'Sometimes I think I attract drama' 2013-07-06T08:00:00Z Without degrees, it is more likely they would look for work in a sector with a huge labour shortage – such as factory production … or housework. Why Parasite misses the mark as a commentary on South Korean society 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “We are to give up our slaves — not for compensation — not gradually as we may be enabled to substitute other labour… but absolutely, unconditionally immediately,” the District Attorney said. Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z India and Pakistan are two of the largest cotton producers in the world, and many reports have revealed the extent to which their cotton industries rely heavily on child labour. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Now everyone was a member of “the hustling class”, and company managers were “mesmerised by the notion that everyone can now be hired cheap – that everyone is slave labour”. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z That allows a few people to exit bad circumstances, but it leaves countless others stuck in under-performing schools or low-paid insecure work at the bottom of the labour market. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Postgate's son Daniel is writing the scripts for the show's 21st Century incarnation, which he described as a "labour of love". Clangers to make TV return 2013-10-14T23:58:52Z A novel such as The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven seemed to me, to use Walter Scott's wonderful phrase about the novels of Tobias Smollett, "sedulously laboured into excellence". The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z It is a labour of love for Nathaniel Mann, a folk musician who is also composer in residence at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. Pigeons make music with whistles 2013-06-26T05:22:59Z As employers use ever more aggressive tactics to reduce labour costs and restrict collective action, productivity is suffering and patterns of employment initially viewed as temporary are becoming permanent. Low-paid Britain: 'People have had enough. It's soul destroying' 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Many of them made their way to Andhra Pradesh and Orissa where they usually migrated to work as contract labour during the chilly-picking season. Aundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Three 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Pregnancy was an early nightmare – morning sickness all day long – and a late crisis – premature labour at 25 weeks. Stopping at one child: 'Every parent feels there's more they could give' 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Those who chose not to learn about child labour were asked to assess the kind of person who would. Ethical consumers are unattractive and boring, aren’t they? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Schemes to demolish slums made their situation still more marginal, even as a flood of foreign labour depressed wages for unskilled jobs below what was needed to start a family. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Men at work ... send us your songs about manual labour. Readers recommend: songs about manual labour 2010-07-15T23:01:00Z Child labour is also widespread: the US Department of Labor and the International Labour Organization estimate that about 85,000 children work in Madagascar’s mines. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Sam Willetts's debut collection is like this, even if its title seems to be the work of a labouring Aladdin. New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z It is September 2003, and my wife is in labour with our second child. Hidden treasures: Scud Mountain Boys – Massachusetts 2013-01-24T10:19:10Z Andrews is currently awaiting a decision on the funding of her PhD, which is focused on the relationships between academic libraries and “data flows, digital labour, academic social networking services and governance in research support”. 'All my life suddenly made sense': how it feels to be diagnosed with autism late in life 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z He was wrong: the moment where he has to confess his weakness to his father, who survived a Soviet labour camp, shows us a man raw to the bone and barely surviving. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z Barbados was the first colony in the English Americas to import slave labour across the Middle Passage, says Stuart. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z In that spirit, I laboured in my laboratory to invent The Mashed Potato of the Future. The Experimental Food Society's culinary revolution 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z Another cut, Shackled and Drawn, is a whooping country song about physical labour – which is, the song posits, still better than no labour at all. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – review 2012-06-22T18:24:42Z The expansionism "is shown to be characterised by corruption, fraud, people-smuggling, endemic secrecy, cosying up to execrable regimes, and the brutal exploitation of its own and other countries' labour forces on a global scale." Book reviews roundup: Family Secrets, A Hologram for the King and China's Silent Army 2013-02-08T18:50:01Z “I don’t know if this is incendiary or not, but the United States was created on the backs of slave labour,” she says. Laverne Cox: 'Now I have the money to feminise my face I don’t want to. I’m happy' 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Billboard has reported that their labours have resulted in a single, although no release plans have yet been announced. Snoop Dogg collaborates with Charlie Sheen on new track 2011-03-31T10:01:37Z To solve the puzzle Marx relied on the “labour theory of value”. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “It’s part of the way we don’t value the kind of emotional labour women are doing all the time,” says Kay. How ‘bridezilla’ became this summer’s biggest sexist slur 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In 1997, B&S's fans were internet-savvy but downloading was still some years off, so email pleas on the fans' Sinister mailing list could only result in handmade labours of love. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z The birth pangs of labour, the call for herbs to hasten it, and that first horrific appearance of the newborn's black muzzle and buds of horns is as unsettling as any moment in opera. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z But it also contains the seeds of radical alternatives: the internet is a space where it is possible to experiment with new kinds of labour and new ways of sharing information, time and experiences. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z This means seeds, feed, fertilizers and manual labour in the case of farmers or ingredients, processing costs and packaging for manufacturers. Food prices are rising but farmers’ profits are still small — here’s why 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The chocolate factory of the title is a mega-factory that relies on slave labour, with hastily whitewashed racist overtones. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: a twisted Victorian morality tale 2013-06-26T16:31:07Z Who are your literary heroes?The characters in my novels are mostly based on the ordinary peasants from my home town, who labour on the farms throughout their lives like ants. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z In fact, his path is determined by the absence of a welfare state and a rolling back of hard-won labour rights. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Route Masters introduces the TFL staff who labour to prevent London from seizing up entirely, and are rarely thanked for their efforts. TV highlights 18/06/2013 2013-06-18T06:00:03Z “Visiting is restricted to help stop the spread of coronavirus,” says NHS England, “but our guidance is absolutely clear that a specific exception should be made for birthing partners when a woman is in labour.” 'I started shouting at the midwives': the stress of giving birth under lockdown 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The lush countryside is a vital and sensuous presence in the Tavianis’ work, and yet it is unsentimentally also seen as the site of cruel agricultural labour and even as a kind of prison. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the radical brothers who electrified Italian cinema 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z A drawing might be labour intensive or take a few seconds. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z "You're interested in labour spies," he said, "so why don't you take a look at this novelist guy who spied for the UK and USA at the time of the Russian Revolution?" The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z I think that the people should democratically control the wealth that we create with our labour. Boots Riley: ‘In film, the more personal you get, the more universal you get’ 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The masterpiece is called A Universe Made Of Strings, and while allusions to string theory and parallel dimensions are in order, no-one can deny the sprawling ambition that the group have laboured to achieve. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z However, the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale – packed with forced labour, sexual violence and even a suicide bombing – was particularly demanding. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Charges of obscenity were laid against Brown, who was later sentenced to three months in prison with hard labour, eventually reduced to a fine. Censorship is stifling Australia's artistic freedom of expression 2013-06-13T23:39:31Z After that, I did a lot of manual labour on building sites and stuff. Andrew Weatherall: 'Never take the Guardian on to a building site' 2013-02-06T16:50:00Z Shockingly, Sean died suddenly just one day before Murdoch appeared before the parliamentary select committee, never getting to see the fruit of his labours in trying to expose all this. Rupert Murdoch and phone hacking: an insiders' story 2011-07-27T18:24:35Z For some, however, such flexibility was taken too far in 2010, when New Zealand labour legislation was changed in the face of Warner Brothers' threats to move production of The Hobbit elsewhere. The Hobbit promises more gold for New Zealand 2012-10-13T19:08:15Z In February an LA judge questioned whether Brown completed the six months' community labour sentence imposed as part of his five-year probation. Chris Brown could face jail over minor car accident 2013-05-28T11:08:46Z Fathers were providers, breadwinners, disciplinarians of last resort; people who waited outside labour wards while their children were born, and returned promptly to work the next day. I don't know how he does it! Meet the new superdads 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z The Mississippi baby's mother did not receive them and her HIV was discovered during labour. HIV 'cure' girl still has virus 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z All my life I put my labour first. Review: Clive James, Writing Toward the Twilight 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Photograph: guardian.co.uk Harry Smith's eccentric, obsessive labour of love informed a generation. The rebirth of the compilation album: now that's what I call a surprise! 2013-04-28T18:00:01Z Increasing automation has led us to move from using our bodies to make things to turning our bodies the site and the product of our labour, through diet and exercise regimes, clothing and cosmetics. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Through most of pre-industrial history Malthusian logic reigned; workers laboured in subsistence agriculture and productivity gains quickly led to unsustainable population growth. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z When my doctor told me I was in labour, I did what I could to halt it. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Photograph: Getty It is impossible to picture this labour as you approach David today in the Accademia gallery; inconceivable, really, how he got from toil to miracle. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z Again, though, the visual inventory gives no clue of the labour and sustained bouts of intense concentration that underpinned the project. Cow-dung toothpaste? Taryn Simon's book Contraband unloads America's baggage 2011-01-03T17:51:54Z This labour, which is the labour to manufacture a feeling of reality, is what is taught, or at least analysed, in creative writing classes. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z The local politicians in question laboured under the misapprehension that they were smarter than developers, that they could make the private sector play a public game. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Even his prose – which flows as easily and naturally as a river to the sea – conceals great labour. Eric Newby's other half 2011-04-05T08:00:04Z Despite the occasional laboured gag, it's an affable enough debut, deserving a wider audience than this post-watershed slot is likely to attract. TV highlights 27/08/2012 2012-08-26T18:59:01Z "I was 18, working in a concrete yard, surrounded by big burly men doing manual labour, and I was a stick insect," he recalls. Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The fruit of this long labour was "Boule de Suif", which Flaubert lived just long enough to read and proclaim a masterpiece. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Another entry in our dictionary, a labour of learning forever regenerating, like laundry; a conversation-stopper, and starter, not because I’m foreign but because we’re old. I fell for a Frenchman, but didn’t speak the language | Lauren Collins 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z In some ways, that long, horrible flight home was harder than labour. Laurie Frankel: We adopted by choice not necessity 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z If you are not from around Manchester, you may labour under the popular misconception that the musical greats associated with the city are all from within its limits. A decade of the Other City's sounds 2014-05-04T00:25:21Z It's hard to be sure who did what in this division of labour, but the result rolls off the tongue. Uncle Vanya ? review 2011-04-07T17:07:53Z It was a long and difficult labour – nearly 20 hours – but the final stages went smoothly. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z For there is this truth about acting and roles: give me a burning 20 minutes and let someone else labour for three hours a night. David Thomson: the importance of supporting actors 2010-07-01T21:45:00Z In 2003, seven months into her first marriage, its traumatic collapse sent her into premature labour; her twins were born at 28 weeks. Meet the 'cleanfluencers', the online gurus who like things nice and tidy 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z In a chapter of her book titled Factory Worker, Fu describes labouring in factories for a decade, until schools reopened in 1976. Ping Fu controversy over childhood tales of China's cultural revolution 2013-02-13T13:47:38Z The body thatwas gross,Rank, ravenous, disgusting in the act or in repose,All fever, filth and sweat, its bestial strengthAnd bestial decay, by pain and labour grows at lengthFragile and luminous. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z For example, some of the things he did was try to organize labour unions and also businesses essentially promoting monopoly – I don’t think that was a plus. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z She was held in a room for hours, interrogated, riding the waves of labour pains. Sahar Delijani: 'I had to tell my family's story of the Iranian executions' 2013-07-06T06:45:00Z If the appeal is declined, they will be sent to women's prison colonies to serve their two-year sentences while conducting light labour, minus the time they've already served. Pussy Riot: 'we still burn with desire to take Putin's monopoly on power' 2012-08-27T14:43:50Z He served in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars during the second world war, spending four years in prisoner-of-war and labour camps in Austria. Clive Dunn, young old man of Dad's Army, dies aged 92 2012-11-07T18:52:29Z The term derives from jahada, an Arabic word meaning to labour, struggle or exert effort. Men of war 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Despite the subterfuge needed to avoid forced labour for the German army during the second world war, he managed to produce a sequence of sombre and undeniably Dutch landscapes, solid, low-keyed and with low horizons. Bram Bogart obituary 2012-05-23T17:20:24Z “There’s a lot of manual labour, which is good for me right now. A lot of lugging clay around, chopping and moving and cleaning up after yourself. But I surprise myself.” Who let Brad Pitt’s fashotainment shoot happen? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z In room after room of their vast studio, members of their 350-strong team labour on new art galleries and cultural buildings. Herzog & de Meuron: and now for our next trick … 2012-05-23T18:30:01Z Dumped in labour camps or impoverished rural settlements, they were forced to work on meagre rations, and perished in large numbers from sickness and malnutrition. The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski – review 2012-11-09T22:55:09Z Then, to his bitter disappointment he found himself ostracised by his fellow liberals for “blaming the victim” in his report, “The Negro Family”, written when he was assistant labour secretary. The odd couple 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z I live parasitically off the labour of others and benefit from the power structure that protects me. Bruce Norris: squirm, you hypocrites! 2013-03-05T21:00:01Z Whether he was exploring police departments, drug cartels, labour unions, the school system, newspapers or city hall, Simon was interested in how the machine worked, or failed to work. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The author spent eight years in labour camps after being denounced in 1945 for criticising Stalin. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z We are able to talk, although I do not labour the point, because I do not wish to make him anxious as this would only exacerbate the situation. My partner can't stay erect long enough for us to consummate our relationship 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Lev Mishchenko … sentenced to death, commuted to 10 years in a labour camp Asked to choose between love and friendship, most people in western cultures would immediately, nervously, tick love. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z He was sent for three years hard labour to Newcastle - a harsh penal institution 150km north of Sydney. Joseph Lycett: From forger to artist 2013-10-11T16:13:16Z Tony spent the next five years at Bindoon, where an Australian Royal Commission last year heard that boys were subjected to back-breaking manual labour, given little food or education and regularly abused. Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The venues involved may be making some money out of showing films, but for those running the clubs it is definitely a labour of love. Film clubs: fancy a cheap night out at the Picture & Pint? 2011-01-18T16:54:53Z The legacies of the industrial revolution, the migration of labour and the geopolitics of Europe and beyond are Manifesta's theme: the world as it was and what it is becoming. Manifesta 9: a rich seam of art in a disused mine 2012-08-06T17:37:05Z And, indeed, the neo-liberal champion of free movement of capital, or the nationalist adversary of a free movement of labour? Enoch at 100 edited by Lord Howard of Rising – review 2012-07-12T07:09:21Z All of these, to quote Anderson, are "produced by entirely free labour, consumed with no expectation of payment or monetary exchange". Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z Behold yon mountain's hoary height Made higher with new mounts of snow:Again behold the winter's weight Oppress the labouring woods below'And streams with icy fetters boundBenumbed and cramped to solid ground. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z For as long as human beings labour for others, their lot will improve only so far as their productivity rises. Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z If it is about anything, The Irishman is about the gangsterisation of US politics, how the Cosa Nostra exploited opportunities to corrupt the electoral process and organised labour. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z They have restored to him the power and status with which they had entrusted him before, in putting their talent, labour, property and good names at his disposal. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z I'm old and I can't labour any more, but I can act. China's extras line up to chase Hollywood dream 2013-05-30T15:47:08Z “The labour isn’t always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees. It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.” From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Mackenzie Crook’s labour of love was very funny, but it became ever more moving and thought-provoking. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z It didn't head west solely in search of sunlight, non-union labour and exotic locations. Gangster Squad reflects the west coast's fear of the east 2013-01-07T17:25:58Z And why should Private Eye, in the process of tweaking a few authors' noses, alight on those who labour behind the scenes and accuse them of incompetence? The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z It came at the expense of life and labour.” Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z There it was not possible for the Germans philosophically to encourage women, who were supposed to be the homemakers, into the factories, and so they used forced labour. Exhibition sheds light on wartime shadow factories 2013-07-15T12:59:51Z As a result of a lack of minimum wage enforcement, companies in the UK are, under the radar, returning to the sweatshop-style labour of the past. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Their structures are polished and refined, compared with the necessarily rough-hewn finishes of structures thrown up with voluntary labour in a few weeks. Britain's best young architects 2011-01-09T00:04:06Z It could even enhance it, as you become wrapped up in the labour as a marketing tool germinating positive word of mouth around the festival marketplace. The Edinburgh festival offers plenty for free but is it better to pay? 2010-08-10T13:30:00Z Google confirmed the camp was real and ominously devoted to “re-education through labour”. Experience: I found a cry for help hidden in my Halloween decorations 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Scotland's industrial glories were founded upon abundant supplies of coal and iron, of course – but also cheap labour. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z The first fruits of their labour emerged recently in the shape of the creeping beauty of To the End and the spacious, hypnotic lure of Our Love Has No Rhythm. Woman's Hour – Our Love Has No Rhythm (Motèl Mari/BLK JKS remix): New music 2013-05-22T06:00:00Z Holloway urges readers to create "cracks" in the edifice: in lieu of "alienated labour", choose to do something you think is necessary or interesting. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z My antenatal teacher claims the best description of labour in literature was written by a bloke. Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z Mute has engaged a veritable bank of issues ahead of other far better resourced producers, publishing germinal texts on education, the knowledge economy, regeneration, intellectual property, web 2.0, immaterial labour, music, film and urbanism. Letters: No go leads to no show when it comes to the arts 2011-04-10T23:05:05Z Under Russian labour laws, a third reprimand would be cause for dismissal. Bolshoi dancer sues over acid attack 'witch hunt' 2013-04-10T11:59:59Z Macotela says the mill is remniscent of mills used in Mexico and Bolivia to mint coins, using the labour of animals and slaves. From Parthenon of banned books to pipe homes of refugees - documenta 14 kicks off 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z “And it’s not just unskilled labour that’s being done online,” says Standing. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z And in a country where infrastructure, capital and labour regulation are all in short supply, it is human bodies rather than machinery that pull crystals from the earth. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z It's essentially about trusting in the reader's intelligence rather than labouring a point. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z On the island he is labouring to turn animals into humanoids. Ten of the best bad doctors in literature 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Carnegie sets out the standard mantra for wealth creation of flexible labour markets, low taxation and soft regulation. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It is not clear if he is helped or hindered in his labours by his New York values. Iowa's unreliable polls are like Groundhog Day all over again 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z For the next 10 hours, Simmons was in labour alone and Charles was relegated to a waiting room outside, like a Mad Men-era husband. 'I started shouting at the midwives': the stress of giving birth under lockdown 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z He finally gets round to the labour in volume III, and the book ends four years before he's conceived. Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z The end of Gene Hunt, the bullying, racist, misogynist, everything else-ist DCI the nation strangely fell in love with, who spoke some of the most laboured lines in British television history. Ashes to Ashes ends and everything becomes less clear 2010-05-21T21:01:00Z Finn describes Pajama Club as a "project begun in a spirit of abandon", and found himself bewitched by the fruit of their labours. No more Crowded House: Neil Finn's new band, Pajama Club 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z It's both creepily obsessive-compulsive and a stark vision of alienated labour. Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z "My Life" tells of the son of a smalltown architect who decides to devote himself to manual labour; "A Visit to Friends" features a family about to lose their old estate. Longing – review 2013-03-10T00:05:34Z There was forced labour in Portuguese colonies into the sixties. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z It was a labour of love, a great need to record a heritage; I didn’t really think I would go on to write about food. The best cookbooks of all time, as chosen by the experts 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z He sets out as a profiteer, buying a former Jewish business in the Kraków ghetto, and exploiting Jewish labour to make enamelware to sell to the German army. Schindler's List at 25: looking back on Spielberg's defining Holocaust drama 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Despite this formal capitulation, the Soviets treated captured troops as PoWs rather than civilian internees: Kore-eda Sr was one of approximately 500,000 men sent to labour camps. Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘They compare me to Ozu. But I’m more like Ken Loach’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z He talked with Green too, often, about the possibility of not doing the novel; not sitting in his air-conditioned garage labouring at "the big thing". Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z “It wasn’t that I had been labouring under the assumption that one day I was going to get this fabulous legacy at all,” she says now. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Ben Arnold New food series labouring beneath what may well be the lamest semi-punning title in television history. TV highlights 29/05/2012 2012-05-28T18:59:01Z Fan videos have now become a YouTube sub-genre in themselves - labours of love that often outshine the original, as artists are beginning to realise. Fan tribute videos: better than the originals? 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z "I had been fascinated by that era and that place since college when I studied labour history, particularly in the west," he explains. The Decemberists: The changing of the seasons 2011-01-06T21:30:00Z Another surrogate mother who had delivered twin girls in Delhi to clients she guessed were from Australia, described her labour as traumatic – she required a blood transfusion after the baby was born. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Classified as subhumans, Poles were expropriated, transported to Germany for forced labour, starved, arrested, and killed in their thousands. The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski – review 2012-11-09T22:55:09Z More fundamentally, many labour market economists have challenged the notion that robots will steal our jobs. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Fuchs doesn't labour this point, though, and keeps the tone relatively light for the bulk of the show – arguably a little too light in the case of Susan Bickley's witch. Hänsel und Gretel – review 2013-06-25T11:47:21Z The government yesterday maintained its stake in 's two-part fantasy epic by promising to rewrite the country's labour laws and offering a $25m tax break to the Hollywood studio Warner Bros. Hobbit deal costs New Zealand changes in labour laws and $25m tax break 2010-10-27T16:06:00Z Thanks to the implantation of multiple embryos, permitted by Indian Council of Medical Research guidelines, 42 % of the surrogates had multiple births, which carry an increased risk of premature labour. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Like most smaller labels, Transparent is a labour of love. SXSW 2011: The British labels making it big in Austin 2011-03-19T02:30:28Z He talks about his parents' disappointment when he chose not to follow a reputable career, but instead took up manual labouring to fund his art. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z These combatants say they have more rights than women in rural Colombian society, where female labour is neither recognised nor appreciated. The feminists of Farc: ‘We are not demobilising, we are mobilising politically’ 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Seldom could the absence of canned laughter have been more keenly felt than in the laboured joke of a next door neighbour repeatedly using the sitcom family's lavatory. Rewind TV: South Riding; The Model Agency; Friday Night Dinner; Silk 2011-02-27T00:05:40Z There’s another bit of labour I find hard to write about. I got pregnant by mistake. Was I ready for single motherhood? 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Diop, however, relies on a high-vis jacket to do the same job, highlighting how the low-paid, largely immigrant workforce whose labour keeps the modern city running goes largely unnoticed by those who depend on it. Lupin: introducing anglophone audiences to a more socially conscious gentleman thief 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z In a world where manual labour is declining and technology is transforming the workplace, it is hardly surprising that traits associated with violent aggression are becoming increasingly redundant. Grayson Perry: ‘Boys think they’re breaking the man contract if they cry’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z For a century and more, many ambitious ceramicists have laboured to lift the status of their craft. Feat of clay 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The other half was just as sure my waters had broken and that I would almost certainly go into labour and give birth to a baby too young to live. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Twenty-one years before Jimmy Porter offended posh punters at the Royal Court, Odets took on labour politics and acrimonious family dynamics in a lower-class Jewish household. American theatre: the wonder years? 2010-04-07T13:29:00Z This film, which has been an eight-year labour of love for director Eric Green, examines that scene through interviews with band members and those they influenced. Five documentaries to watch in 2014 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z It was here that he dreamed up his complex designs in the knowledge that "in inventing new things one cannot receive the fruit of one's labour except later". Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z This was very interesting, the idea that if husbands and wives hash out ahead of time in detail what the division of labour should look like before the kid is born, it would be helpful. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z “It’s a category of labour that remains largely unacknowledged, underpaid and underresourced.” Casting directors are essential to any great film – so where are their Oscars? 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z A further statement of intent is the appointment of Pearl Matome as permanent secretary for labour and immigration, one of a handful of women in such a senior government post. Women will get equal pay … in 118 years 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote 2013-05-07T18:30:10Z This occurred at the same time as the development of a mass labour movement across Europe giving us, hey presto, "Marxism". Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z As labour minister from 2004, he struggled to bring Saudis into the labour market, where most jobs were held by expatriates. Ghazi al-Gosaibi obituary 2010-08-24T17:43:00Z As before, replicants are essentially mass-produced slave labour for the privileged. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Since retiring in 1985 from Pithiviers hospital south of Paris where he revolutionised the labour ward, he’s spent his time writing and lecturing around the world to midwives and doctors. Michel Odent: ‘How long can humanity survive now?’ 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z In fact, labour shortages have spread to other sectors that support supply chains, including ports and warehouses. 5 problems that could slow supplies of food and other goods this winter 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z I don't want to labour a point and list one so-so artist after another, or go bonkers trying to understand what is so deep about a deliberately bad impersonation of Marianne Faithfull. Why has The London Open got its eyes wide shut to the capital's creatives? 2012-07-04T11:24:57Z He found the Shangri-La film a liberating counterbalance to the nitpicking labour of the London film which, he explains, "is a kind of mosaic, with lots of images from lots of sources, an archive-based film". Julien Temple: the dark side of Glastonbury 2012-06-13T19:00:01Z I don't particularly care for the film's moments of laboured symbolism – Saul Bass's spirograph credits for instance, or the celebrated nightmare sequence. My favourite Hitchcock: Vertigo 2012-08-10T14:28:09Z None the wiser, my mum said yes, and was seven months pregnant, in London, in love, when she learned that her lover was two women's husband and promptly went into labour. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z Oxytocin is best known for its use in inducing labour. Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011-08-20T23:08:00Z The study finds that labour costs in the childcare industry relative to the wages of American women with college and advanced degrees decreased by 10% and 16% respectively in the past 30 years. High-fliers have more babies, according to study 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Parkrun has saved her life, she believes, because it was only through her laboured breathing that she discovered she had a chronic lung disease, known as COPD, that can now be controlled. ‘If you can run, you can do anything’: why over 65s are at park 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde's life was effectively cut short by his two years of hard labour in the 1890s. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z The non-ethical shoppers knew they should care about child labour but didn’t want to think about it, so felt threatened by those who did. Ethical consumers are unattractive and boring, aren’t they? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Diana is experiencing a successful posthumous career – with her image and life labouring after her death – without her consent. "Spencer": how Diana became the popular culture princess 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z My mother recalled that during her labour I recited the whole of Paradise Lost, but I believe her to have been mistaken. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z This likable if more than a trifle laboured Indian movie reworks King Lear in present-day London. Life Goes On ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:29Z Concerts of operatic extracts labour under two constraints. Jonas Kaufmann – review 2013-04-22T17:07:59Z Long ago publishers outsourced copy editing, relying on the freelance labour market – and freelancers are now being actively sought by self-publishing authors too. Ten ways self-publishing has changed the books world 2013-04-08T11:24:03Z Most people will agree that we should democratically control the wealth that we create with our labour. Boots Riley: ‘In film, the more personal you get, the more universal you get’ 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Model Alliance seeks to end financial exploitation, abuse of child labour and sexual molestation. Fashion's real victims 2012-02-13T19:30:01Z He had just pleaded guilty to felony assault, and was soon to be sentenced to five years' probation and six months' community labour for a brutal attack on his then girlfriend, Rihanna. Chris Brown looks set for No 1 in comeback without contrition 2012-07-06T15:25:09Z Also useful for any laboured "Put your xx in the Tory box" gags. Who politicians should be talking about 2010-04-20T20:45:00Z They did forced labour, under threat of punishment, without pay, and those who escaped to neighbouring African villages to work for wages were arrested and brought back. Wilberforce was complicit in slavery 2010-08-03T11:59:00Z It is a labour of love for Weinstein and he has insisted on being involved at every stage of the show's creation, alongside director Rob Ashford. Weinstein goes back to Neverland 2012-09-14T05:24:13Z The plot is sound and the cattiness is pungent but Edwards overwrites, labouring every nuance, overexplaining every emotion and introducing a cat-angel who beggars belief. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z He even said the tropical land yielded fruit without labour. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Experts on the cultural revolution told the Guardian schools mostly reopened in 1968 or 1969 and that pupils had lessons in factories to learn skills, but were not used as labour. Ping Fu controversy over childhood tales of China's cultural revolution 2013-02-13T13:47:38Z The company they are working for as slave labour is Goodyear. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Kids getting exploited for their unpaid viral labour is, of course, how the digital economy tends to work. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z |
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