Sentence examples similar to meaningless labor from inspiring English sources
Without action, human work is meaningless and labor is fruitless.
Il posto is a deeply moving explication of alienated labor, the meaningless regimentation that signifies being an adult.
His idea seemed to be to evoke work songs and slave labor, full of meaningless tasks.
Now he thought that he'd lost, that his work and all the thousands of man-hours of heavy labor would become meaningless in minutes.
More than that, she excoriated the amateur system — which artificially caps the amount universities can pay athletes in exchange for their labor — as a meaningless, unjustifiable sham.
China's labor advantage is nearly meaningless in expensive high-tech devices like iPhones and it can't possibly outweigh the shipping costs for most heavy goods like steel pipes or wallboard.
Class division, by divorcing means from ends (production from consumption) and intelligent planning from physical operations, reduces physical labor to a tedious, mindless, meaningless mechanical exercise of habit, which thereby lacks aesthetic value in lacking unity and intelligent appreciation.
"To have a meaningless lockout to support regressive proposals is to shoot yourself in the foot," said Marvin Miller, the players' former labor leader.
labor organization have complained that without a government-run public option to counter private insurance, any effort to remake health care is meaningless.
