#The Six Labours

[dreamconsumer]

Theseus and Aegeus. Unknown artist.

[monsieurenjlolras]

you've heard of "quiet quitting," now I'd like to introduce you to the next level, The French Work Ethic:

Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more

Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock

Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.

Have a little glass of wine

Take as long as you feel like for lunch

Deeply understand that work doesn't matter

Make sure your boss knows they're always your second priority ❤️

[old-habits-die-screaming]

the way i just had to make this (the voices told me)

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[chardwic]

It's not an act of love, if you make her.

You make me do too much labour.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Six Balls has a new year's resolution

[thebirdandhersong]

also im gonna need someone to forcibly hold me down so that i do not acts of service myself to death for boys who literally don't care!!!!!

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend!

On the tail of our Limited Edition Club thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare series, we are delving back into our Shakespeare Collection to explore Nicholas Rowe’s (1674-1718) The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Published in London in 1709 by Jacob Tonson, this second edition holds an important place within Shakespearean publication history. The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes is recognized as the first octavo edition, the first illustrated edition, the first critically-edited edition, and the first to present a biography of the poet.  

Rowe, having been a dramatist and poet himself, was able to divide the plays into scenes and include notes on the entrances and exits of the players. He also normalised the spelling of names and included a dramatis personae preceding each play. The only chronicled critique of Rowe’s momentous editorial endeavor is his choice in basing his text on the corrupt Fourth Folio.  

This week, we present you with the first volume of The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. It includes The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, and Love’s Labour’s Lost. A full-page engraving precedes each play with an additional frontispiece engraving of the Stratford monument. The illustrations are by the French Baroque artist and book illustrator François Boitard (1670-1715).

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts.

-- Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[convoloutedinjoke]

Currently writing swap AU where Kim is just himself on hard mode. Like he wakes up in a clean, normal room, puts on the same outfit as always and doesn't tell anyone he's forgotten everything until Harry wheedles it out of him by badgering him for One Singe Secret (he cant remember any).

He then goes outside and points a gun at a civilian over a perceived threat.

[rooksnooks]

Thank fucking god that the human body is 60% liquid because if there wasn't an explanation for how you could cut me open and find burning magma in there I would just die

[hussyknee]

see you.

[kiwipit]

mildly related why is it that only ppl way above my acceptable age gap FUCKING TALK TO ME . IM TIRED . I AM 22

[sapphia]

USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.

Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.

It’s been six months.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"LABOR TO DEMAND THIRTY-HOUR WEEK," Hamilton Spectator. September 19, 1933. Page 7. --- Resolution Passed in Convention at Windsor ---- Attack on Minimum Wage Board's Officers ---- Windsor, Ont., Sept. 19. - (CP) Labor took a definite stand to-day in favor of a 30-hour week-without reduced pay. With a minimum of discussion, the Trades and Labor congress, in convention here, passed a resolution whereby it went on record as requesting the government to put in force a six-hour day in all industries with a corresponding increase in pay "to Increase the purchasing power of the masses as it is only by this means the economic conditions of all classes can be improved."

With this resolution, the convention adopted a second one asking the government, "shall make it compulsory for all employers to adopt this principle under heavy penalty for infraction of same."

It defeated, however, a proposal for a 30-hour week with a minimum of $1 per hour in all classes of male labor and a minimum of 75 cents an hour for female workers.

Immigration Act The Winnipeg Trades and Labor council submitted a resolution which urged immediate abolition of "obnoxious sections" of the Immigration act and urging the immediate stoppage of all deportations, but this was defeated after some discussion. It was pointed out the resolution clashed with the announced policy of the congress and the resolutions committee, which had recommended non-concurrence, was upheld by a vote.

Four resolutions listed under fair wage acts and regulations were passed. They sought the observance of the eight-hour day for all building trades; enactment of legislation prohibiting abuse of fair wage regulations and insertion of such clauses in all government contracts.

Then the convention turned to hours of labor and working conditions and discussion raged loud and long. Joseph Tomkins, of Toronto, claimed women were being exploited by employers in his city. Department stores were paying girls $1.89 per day and requiring them to work from 8 a.m. to 6 or 7 o'clock at night. If the girls complained, he said, they were dis- charged. Statements of Frank Wilson, M.L.A., at yesterday's session, were characterized by Mr. Tomkins as "the bunk."

Wilson's Statement Mr. Wilson had told Mayor David Croll he would place a list of violators of the Minimum Wage act before the attorney-general if the mayor would obtain such a list. Mr. Tompkins said lists were useless: what the most needed was "a government inspector who would en- force the act."

Miss Mary MacNab, of Toronto, claimed charges she had made with regard to exploitation of girl workers at last year's congress had been denied by a Toronto inspector despite her offer to produce proof. She attacked officials of the mini- mum wage board of Ontario, claiming they were lacking in their duties.

[berrymeter]

i do think its crazy that at least here you need to do like 6 months' worth of work before qualifying for unemployment benefits AND you need to like. have An Account on that one job website for that

[conkreetmonkey]

Remember how a few decades ago spending your life in a pointless office job where you sit in a cubicle sipping coffee all day, going home to your cramped apartment to eat a TV dinner, was considered peak Miserable Western Life? And nowadays landing any job is a pipe dream and living alone in a cheap tiny one bedroom apartment is the height of luxury for anybody under 40 because the norm is to share it with at least 2 other people?

Anyway, I've gotten rejected by Walmart, McDonald's, and numerous shitty grunt labor jobs like asphalt laying, warehouse laboring and roofing. As soon as it's cool enough to safely walk a dozen blocks without risk of heatstroke, I'm going to go to the unethical 12-hour shift factory down the street, and if they reject me I'm just going to start selling off my stuff.

I'm not sure if this town is particularly bad or if it's like this everywhere, or maybe I'm just unemployable, but I've applied to hundreds of jobs and literally can't get in flipping burgers with years of kitchen experience. I can't get a job tarring rooves or digging holes because the few that are hiring ghost me. I had a guy ask me when I'd be avaliable for an interview and then ghost me after I answered. Just... FUCK.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot