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  2. Jessie Boucherett - Wikipedia

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    Boucherett's activities for women's causes were inspired by reading the English Woman's Journal, which reflected her own aims, and by an article in the Edinburgh Review about the problems of the many 'superfluous' women in England during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a time when there were far more women than men in the population.

  3. Superfluous - Wikipedia

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    Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: Superfluous precision, the use of calculated measurements beyond significant figures;

  4. Surplus labour - Wikipedia

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    In other words, work performed in households—often by those who do not sell their labour power to capitalist enterprises at all—contributes to the sustenance of capitalist workers who may perform little household labour. Possibly the controversy about the concept is distorted by the enormous differences with regard to the world of work:

  5. Work–life balance - Wikipedia

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    A worklife balance is bidirectional; for instance, work can interfere with private life, and private life can interfere with work. This balance or interface can be adverse in nature (e.g., worklife conflict) or can be beneficial (e.g., worklife enrichment) in nature. [1]

  6. Agnes Callard - Wikipedia

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    Aspiration must be framed as a process in which we are guided by the values of the self which we aspire to be, rather than our current values. This framing avoids a dilemma where, as Abbé Sieyès might have put it, "if the new values agree with the old, the change is superfluous; if they disagree, the change cannot come from our rational agency."

  7. Critique of work - Wikipedia

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    Many thinkers have critiqued and wished for the abolishment of labour as early as in Ancient Greece. [1] [10] [11] [12] An example of an opposing view is the anonymously published treatise titled Essay on Trade and Commerce published in 1770 which claimed that to break the spirit of idleness and independence of the English people, ideal "work-houses" should imprison the poor.

  8. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    Pleonasm (/ ˈ p l iː. ə ˌ n æ z əm /; from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός pleonasmós, from πλέον pléon 'to be in excess') [1] [2] is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as in "black darkness," "burning fire," "the man he said," [3] or "vibrating with motion."

  9. Danshari - Wikipedia

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    Separate: Let go and free yourself from attachment to things or desires for superfluous things; Rejecting what is not needed, throwing it away, and refraining from depending on it, is said to open one's mind, approach perfection and leading to an easier and more comfortable life. [citation needed]