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...supposed to be a ticket to self-respect and social betterment -- at least that's what the pols tell us when the poor start clamoring for their welfare checks. But conditions in the low-wage end of the work force are beginning to look like what Friedrich Engels found in 19th century Manchester and described as immiserization. Within 10 miles of my suburban home, for example, there is a factory where (until they got a union contract a year ago) the workers slept in their cars and bathed in the restroom -- because, at the minimum wage, housing...
SENIOR WRITERS: George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Eugene Linden, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard...
...even the Swiss can resist making disparaging remarks about themselves and their country. Poet Carl Spitteler claimed that if the Swiss had created the Alps, they would not have been so high. Playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt noted that his country's vaunted neutrality "makes me think of a virgin who earns her living in a bordello but wants to remain chaste." Not surprisingly, the Swiss celebrated the septicentennial of their confederation this month with restraint...
SENIOR WRITERS: George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Eugene Linden, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard...
SENIOR WRITERS: George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Eugene Linden, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...