Bowker is a clear and prudent writer, and his labors count as a service to scholarship.
Even in the harvesting of crops, back-breaking labor counts for little compared with the gifts of soil, sunshine and rain.
His archnemesis and co-planktologist, Ernst Haeckel, commented that the enormous labor of counting individual plankton had potential for "the ruin of mind and body".
Soon after the development of the fission track method, interest emerged for the development of automated counting procedures to replace the time consuming labor of counting fission tracks under the microscope.
It was as if you had Ma Ingalls sitting around the Little House on the Prairie, eating bonbons, and only Pa Ingalls's labor was counted in.
The labor bureau counts 2.1 million, and predicts their numbers will grow by as much as 20percentt a year, with demands for electrical specialists particularly strong.
"The Workers Partyy has created a model in which militancy in the party or a labor union counts more than administrative experience or an academic curriculum," said Lúcia Hippólito, a political scientist who has studied the bureaucracy for 20 years.
But the authors of the Constitution protected the right to repossess a slave -- or, as they euphemistically put it, a "person held to service or labor," and counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation.
New entries into the labor force count up to at least a million annually, so job creation is an issue.
Unemployment rose from 5.3percenttotoverer 20percentt of the labor force and, counting the people who dropped out of the labor force or were involuntarily working part time, unemployment/underemployment peaked at more than 30percentt.
