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Until a century ago, most people in the Western world worked on the soil or on the sea. Time was measured not by the abstract division of matter and motion but by the exigencies of wresting one's livelihood from nature. In 1790 (the year Franklin died) more than 90% of the population of the then United States (a total of almost 4 million people) worked on the land. The rhythm of life was shaped by the feeding of the animals, the sowing of the soil, the lambing of the ewes, the harvesting of the crops in a daily...
BAWS does not have a legal charter or a shiny new headquarters building along the Potomac. But scattered throughout the Government are thousands of men and women who depend on it for their livelihood. Other thousands who gave more than a decade of their most creative years to BAWS feel compelled to continue their search for vindication of their positions...
...commission, so I'm not getting paid for being here," one salesman said. "What I am doing here is just trying to protect my livelihood," he added...
...should restore in these vendors their chance to earn a livelihood in a way that is bothersome only to store merchants and is a pleasant change from the commercialized stores that remain in the Square...
...greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. Many of the former group wound up in prison for contempt of Congress; many of the latter found their careers and livelihood destroyed...