drudgery

These change agents have also been acting as a source of hope and aspiration for young workers who face precarity and the drudgery of routinized work.

Under Shell's control, it became a successful weekly guide to women who found themselves in charge of both a household and a budget to outsource the daily drudgery to the lower classes.

Employees at biotech conglomerate Lumon Industries are offered the company's pioneering severance programme, a concept inspired by series creator Dan Erickson's desire to escape the mind-numbing drudgery of his office jobs.

This show, though, transforms familiar drudgery into fantasy.

If they can't get women to volunteer for lives of meaningless drudgery, at least they can punish them for trying to have something more fulfilling.