Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly less grand ceremony up on Garden St., President Horner, Radcliffe officials and community residents gathered to dedicate the $2.24 million Radcliffe athletic facility...
...STEVENS, the country's second largest textile industry, is notorious for its unethical and illegal labor practices. It pays its workers less than any other industry in the country. It combats workers' attempts to organize with blatant force or threats of dismissal. It lays off workers incapacitated with the brown lung disease contracted in the mills, refusing to provide compensation. But J.P. Stevens is not solely responsible for its workers' inability to organize against these abuses. Rise Gonna Rise argues that Stevens' workers are also prevented from organizing by their own nostalgic feelings and deference...
...visists to her parents in a Stevens plant. Since skipping through the cotton dust around the plant as a child, she had known she would work for Stevens, like everyone else in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Although she sees Stevens as a paternal company, she condemns it for paying her less than minimum wage and then forcing her to retire because of the brown lung disease she contracted while working in their mills. Despite her bitterness, she is reluctant to fully support unionization and looks to government assistance instead. She is held back from outright rebellion by her life-long respect...
Conway calls her narrative "the relentless witnessing of ravages lives," but the impact of the narrative is has far less impact than the description implies. Trite and ultimately tiresome, the structure of the book prevents Conway from articulating the problems within the unionization movement itself. By randomly panning workers' sentiments, Conway skirts a critical analysis of the factors in the workers' minds and society that obstruct their unionization attempts...
...that he could not live outside of your house; perhaps one of his enemies waits outside your door. Moreover, he informs you that he needs food and clothing and someone to talk to--he needs your presence much of the day. He becomes more demanding: you must work less, earn less, give up jogging...