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Coleman's quest is for a personal knowledge of the working man but also for a simple, manual side to his own nature that he senses he may have lost. Perhaps Coleman could have made his book a testimonial to the "whole man," but fortunately he is not so pompous. In fact, one of the man's few virtues is his lack of condescension. The journal is full of simple declarations of the equalness of blue-collar and white-collar man, and the trusting plain-faced manner in which Coleman voices this truth makes one believe he is not mouthing...
...muscles in his back, for the simple and direct language he knows he will find in the ditch. So he settles into comfortable generalizations, of the meaningless sophistication of white-collar workers who perform interesting tasks and the rude but honest manners of blue-collar workers who execute monotonous manual labor. Coleman chants vacuously at the conclusion that he set out to learn something but instead found a lost part of himself...
...analysis. He says, and one believes him for a minute, he knows the harsh effect the loss of a steady income has on the physiognomy. In his record of employment at the Boston's Union Oyster House, Coleman describes young workers whose lives he says will be dulled by manual labor...
...statutory control, while prices have gotten out of hand. Poor people are beginning to suffer a decline in their standard of living, but taxation of the rich has not increased and has, in some cases, decreased. The totally unnecessary impostion of the three-day work week has hit manual and semi-skilled workers with unemployment, and has cut the pay of those who have retained jobs. Those earning monthly salaries have not been affected and, needless to say, though the industrialists grumble about bad trading prospects, they still live a very comfortable life. In the past four years...
...eyes of the Communists, he fostered exactly the kind of deep division between ruler and ruled that runs counter to Mao's expressed principle that in a proletarian society the masses rule themselves. Even more offensive to the Communist is the Confucianists' extremely unproletarian disdain for manual labor. "The superior man attends to spiritual things and not to his livelihood," was Confucius' pronouncement...