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In a style that owes much to Brazil's famous soap operas, in which every movement, emotion and line drips with melodrama, the film depicts him losing a finger in a lathe accident and then his wife and son in childbirth, before he bounces back to lead the powerful metalworkers...
Today vocational ed--or career tech, as it's commonly called--more often involves a computer mouse than a lathe. More than 15 million middle and high school and community-college students are enrolled, up 58% since 2000, in programs like biotechnology and computer networking. According to a 1998 University...
A.M. Skilled and hourly listings are growing. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in Nickel and Dimed that after working two jobs, she didn't have the strength to look for another. Now she would have the energy, because she would just go online. Of the 50,000 résumés we get...
The scars left by the Cultural Revolution have made some young Chinese nervous about speaking out, fearful that they could become victims of some future political shift. Wang Liping (not his real name) saw his father, a university professor, forced to spend eight years as a lathe operator during the...
Hark also testifies to the classes’ spiritual power, describing the process of woodturning as “advancing an awareness of my connection with my subconscious and a universal awareness that is expressed in the product of my work at the lathe.â€