Marcuse's point here is that while work is necessary for the maintenance of life, in our society there has been a transition from the basic amount of work needed to maintain life to what we might call surplus work.
Lawrence H. Summers, who was President Clinton's last treasury secretary, insists that budget surpluses work.
If China's authoritarian leaders have deliberately steered the country's surplus rural work force into urban factories, Indian leaders have done little to promote job opportunities in cities for rural migrants.
Dave's is a great outlet for jeans, Army surplus, and work clothes, and it's D.'s favorite store, because he can shop there in less than seven minutes (Red Wing boots, $125-$125-$279bed belt, $3).
But there are strong arguments for putting the surplus to work immediately, either through spending programs to address poverty, education, health and the environment, or through tax cuts that might promote higher rates of economic growth.
Muscle can only be built when you create a calorie surplus, then work out in targeted ways to promote muscle growth in your body.
Yet this surplus of beauty works for the role because the actor, who holds the screen with the unconscious physical confidence of the truly lovely, looks like the star that James Hunt became.
This allowed the Archbishop to make good on his intention to sell all diocesan land not used for church purposes, and over the next few years, land, surplus vestments and works of art owned by the Archdiocese were sold off.
AMERICA, like other modern countries, has always had some surplus workers — people ready to work but jobless for extended periods because the "job creators," private and public, have been unable or unwilling to create sufficient jobs.
For many, the strategy of educating America's way out of the global labour surplus isn't working.
