With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world.

Children who are busy collecting water or are exhausted by the drudgery involved often miss school or its full benefit.

Prevention of diarrhoea and other diseases Increased school attendance and retention Reduction of drudgery and increased dignity Improved nutritional status

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

Life Magazine helped in this effort by announcing the introduction of throwaways that would liberate the housewife from the drudgery of doing dishes.

Safe water sources near homes reduce the time wasting drudgery of fetching water (a burden borne disproportionately by women and girls) and provide opportunities for poor families to engage in small scale productive activities such as market gardening.

And in South Africa, we had taken our innovators, and many of us had gone there share with the colleagues in South Africa as to how innovation can become a means of liberation from the drudgery that people have.

Notwithstanding long hours (perhaps longer than in factory jobs), service professionals enjoyed much greater control over their daily lives and workplace decisions. Teachers, nurses, and waiters were not paid nearly as well, but they, too, were released from the humdrum mechanical drudgery of the shop floor.