Many people believe that if there were alternatives, shelters would not kill because they are staffed with benevolent animal lovers, laboring against overwhelming odds and offering a humane death only when necessary.
These declarations about workers, yoked to the northern argument that emancipation was both an act of benevolence and a period of necessary instruction for black southerners in the habits and practices of wage labor, propelled northern benevolent associations, armies, and the state to forge a transportation network that they hoped would ensure the flow of workers northward.
4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.
This is true, no matter how benevolent SodaStream's intentions or fair its labor practices.
They point to significantly lower labor costs, the availability of cheap land and, above all, a benevolent tropical climate that allows them not only higher productivity per acre, but three harvests a year.
He presents the benevolent face of Microsoft -- a hard-working paragon of American capitalism, laboring daily to make better software to improve people's lives.
At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.
France during the nineteen-thirties was in transition from an old, unashamedly predatory model of imperialism to one that insisted on the mission civilisatrice the vauntedly benevolent gathering of different races into one French commonwealth and, simultaneously, from a model of work and labor as their own reward to one in which the reward of irksome labor was French family leisure.
But the government's interest in providing medical support resulted less from a benevolent concern to treat the sick and suffering and more from an investment in creating a healthy labor force to return to the plantation South.
France during the nineteen-thirties was in transition from an old, unashamedly predatory model of imperialism to one that insisted on the mission civilisatrice — the vauntedly benevolent gathering of different races into one French commonwealth — and, simultaneously, from a model of work and labor as their own reward to one in which the reward of irksome labor was French family leisure.
At times the ongoing shortage of staff, he says, meant the enormous system of institutions seemed to be more inward-looking than outward and rehabilitation-focussed. "There were benevolent aspects to it, but inevitably there was a shortage of resources, which meant the long-term patient labor force was subverted into propping up the institutional system," he says.
