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...genuine Okie, Harris was born in one of the nation's most impoverished areas in the Great Depression. His father, a land-poor, dirt-poor migrant farmer, went as far north as Canada to harvest crops. From the age of five, Harris accompanied him. To Harris, a bank was "more than a place to deposit and borrow money; it was almost a kind of religious institution." His father "was a different man, it seemed to me, when he went to the bank. He took his hat off the minute he walked through the door." Whenever Harris and his chums...
...Communist Party's strongest following has traditionally been in the impoverished Alentejo region south of the Tagus River, an area of huge farms owned by absentee landlords. There, tenant sharecroppers and migrant workers barely subsisted producing cork, olives, a few pigs and some wheat. Laborers frequently went hungry in the midst of unworked estates that had been turned into private hunting preserves...
...anonymous narrator, a woman living alone in an unidentified city, finds herself existing in a kind of end-time-an apocalypse disguised by understatement. Other tenants are quietly abandoning her apartment building, joining the migrant tribes that suddenly appear, briefly camp, and just as suddenly move on "to the East," leaving no trace but the marks of bonfires on the pavement. Machines no longer work. The electricity is off. Water sells by the bucket and good air is beyond price. Only the bureaucracy goes on, still fussing about regulations as if nothing has happened. Bureaucrats, the government and the press...
Seeger's performances still reflect this basic decency and idealism. He sings about children, migrant workers, peace and martyrs for freedom with the same fervor that has sustained him for 35 years...
Foreign business has been attracted by a comprehensive array of "investment incentives" including tax holidays, government subsidies and free repatriation of profits, and above all, an abundant, cheap, docile and increasingly skilled labor force of Singaporeans and temporary migrant labor from neighboring Malaysia. The acquiescence of the labor force to low wages and strict industrial discipline is obtained, on the one hand, by the government "delivering the goods" to the people in the form of public housing, social services and jobs, and on the other by repressive labor legislation...