Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet practice of forcing Russian executives and technical experts to work for the government is rather a communist political principle than a sound economic policy. It practically amounts to state serfdom, for the worker, although nominally free, is, in reality, a slave to the state. The ruthless suppression of the moderately successful peasants or kulaks and the persecution of the 'intellectuals' harboring so-called counter-revolutionary tendencies are, in the final analysis, political measures...
...first railway worker in history to be canonized as a saint was the subject of preliminary ceremonies towards beatification at Vatican City last week. Paolo Pio Perazzo, who died in 1910, was poisoned by the bite of a mad dog while attempting to aid a child whom the dog had attacked. He had led a life of piety and devotion, throwing all his energies into the task of assisting railwaymen to improve the con- ditions under which they lived and worked. In return the Italian Railwaymen's Association is now contributing funds for the expense of Perazzo...
...Colophon (gilt-edged bibliophiles' gilt-edged quarterly) Theodore Dreiser revealed what he believes happened to the first edition of his first novel, Sister Carrie: In 1900 Frank Norris, then reader for Doubleday, Page & Co., persuaded his employers to sign a contract for its publication. Mrs, Frank Doubleday, social worker and moral reformer, read the MS. with a horror that persuaded her husband to "throw the books in the cellar" before putting them on sale. Norris quickly mailed out 100 review copies, the only U. S.-printed volumes of the book in circulation for the next seven years...
...middle ages the craftsman was a specialized worker trained in the rigorous guild system to a high level of skill at his trade. He was a man whose work was essentially creative and its success was directly responsible to his own initiative and ability. At the present time however, the factory laborer has no personal interest in the job itself and looks to it solely as the source of his income. The creative element in machine work has been sacrificed for the sake of efficiency and the result is evident both in the quality of the products and the character...
With the increased efficiency in industry derived from the constant supply of skilled labor, running time in the factory will be cut down and the worker will have greater leisure at his command. Greater leisure will mean heavier demands on the individual's own resources which must be developed through general education. For, unlike the artisan in medieval days, the modern man is unable to draw any real enjoyment from his work, and consequently he must look for it in another direction. When vocational specialization is carried down into a man's early years he can not form the general...