George Orwell quote about work from Animal Farm - This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
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This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
 George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945). copy citation

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Author George Orwell
Source Animal Farm
Topic work tyranny coercion
Date 1945
Language English
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“But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle thieving human beings.
Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. Even so it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone. The harvest was a little less successful than in the previous year, and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.” source

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