Bondage without rest, toil without reward.

Shouldn t that cleaner s drudgery to support her family, children, and her own survival be taken equally into account?

Could premature de industrialization be a blessing in disguise, enabling workers in the developing world to bypass the drudgery of manufacturing?

But, as late as 1871, John Stuart Mill was writing that it was doubtful whether all of the industrial revolution s inventions had lightened the day s toil of a single worker.

Each year, about 1 million people, in particular women and children, are brutally exploited by criminal gangs who make a living from sweatshops, prostitution and child pornography, from farmers or domestics working for slave wages and from migrants in search of a better life.