When again tired, he would repeat the same question, and receiving the same answer, continue his cruel labor.
These poverty wages, according to a recent review in Preventive Medicine, "could be viewed as occupational hazards and could be a target for disease prevention and health promotion efforts". From this perspective, there is little difference between low wages and workers' being exposed to asbestos, harmful chemicals or cruel labor conditions.
Mann deftly illuminates these contradictions on a human scale: the blind violence and terror at Jamestown, the cruel exploitation of labor in the silver mines of Bolivia, the awe felt by Europeans upon first seeing a rubber ball bounce.
"1493," by Charles C. Mann (Knopf; $30.50) Mann deftly illuminates [history's] contradictions on a human scale: the blind violence and terror at Jamestown, the cruel exploitation of labor in the silver mines of Bolivia, the awe felt by Europeans upon first seeing a rubber ball bounce.
After being named Governor, de León and the conquistadors forced the Tainos to work in the mines and to build fortifications; many Tainos died as a result of cruel treatment during their labor.
The government protected labor from the cruel abuses of big business, legalized unions, established the social security system, and put the usurers on Wall Street under the thumb of the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal watchdogs, locking them in the regulatory cage where they belonged.
"Men sent to the camps under Section 175 were usually put to forced labor under the cruelest conditions — underfed, long hours, exposure to the elements and brutal treatment by labor brigade leaders," Mr. Phillips said.
North Korea's bankrupt justice system has delivered a cruel verdict — 12 years of hard labor — to the American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
And that's the problem when Americans get on their high horses about child labor, without understanding the cruel third world economics that cause it.
Labor unions and law enforcement officials have condemned President-elect Donald Trump's "cruel and baffling" nomination of fast food executive Andrew Puzder for labor secretary on Thursday.
And the cruel thing, Wittgenstein saw, was that his labors had brought him no peace: the problems of life in general and of his life in particular remained completely untouched.
