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122: 373:"Another branch of ſummary proceedings is that before juſtices of the peace, in order to inflict divers petty pecuniary mulcts, and corporal penalties, denounced by act of parliament for many diſorderly offences; ſuch as common ſwearing, drunkenneſs, vagrancy, idleneſs, and a vaſt variety of others, for which I muſt refer the ſtudent to the juſtice-books formerly cited, and which uſed to be formerly puniſhed by the verdict of a jury in the 192: 25: 233:. Paid time off, which was introduced in the 20th century as a trade unionist reform, is now absent from an increasing number of job arrangements both as a money-saving mechanism and so that only work pays and thus reinforcing the stigma against idleness and enabling nature's punishment of idleness in the form of destitution and starvation. 218:" refers to idleness and can be defined as spending time doing nothing in particular in order that time seems to pass more quickly. These interpretations of idleness are not universal – they are more typically associated with Western cultures. Idleness was considered a 203:
Typically, when one describes a machine as idle, it is an objective statement regarding its current state. However, when used to describe a person, idle typically carries a negative
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published the essay "Quitting the Paint Factory: The Virtues of Idleness", hinting at a
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is a humorous self-help book published in August 2000. The book inspired the title of
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Involuntary enforced idleness is the punishment used for lazy or slacking workers in
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Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-century British Literature and Culture
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is devoted to promoting the ethos of "idle living". Hodgkinson published
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is a 2018 publication contending the idle state is one of true freedom.
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in 2007), also aimed to improve the public perception of idling.
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in 1935, exploring the virtues of being idle in modern society.
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economy and linking conscious busyness with anti-democratic and
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The Importance of Being Idle: A Little Book of Lazy Inspiration
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Idle Woman
Daniel Hernández Morillo
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network circuit
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Kannur
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disorderly offence
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