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...sixteenth year of uninterrupted labor for one corporation, takes home seventy-four dollars every week. He lives beside, and almost underneath the elevated railroad in the poorest block of the South End. He eats left-over cold-cuts, bread and pastries brought home from the corporation cafeteria, drinks (when he has cash to drink at all) the cheapest red wine. He receives no health insurance and no benefits for overtime. He gets two weeks of paid vacation every year--is forced, however, to work at Christmas, New Year and Thanksgiving...
...staff cafeteria is immaculate, lit with fluorescence and perked up by leaf-green supergraphics. Four dwarfs and a brown nylon-shag bear stand at the counter, ordering chipped beef. Their human faces, pinheads emerging from their neck-holes, look tiny, naked and grumpy. Across a wide cinder-block corridor whose ceiling is wreathed like a battleship's with gas pipes and power mains, more ducks and mice are disappearing into the mask room. REMOVE YOUR HEAD AND PLACE ON TABLE AFTER ENTERING, a notice Commands; the racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood...
...keep pinching myself and asking, 'Is this any less role playing than what I've been doing?' " Coleman next moved to Boston and found a job as a dishwasher in a cafeteria. Before the first hour was up, his boss slipped two dollars into his hand and said simply, "You won't do." Coleman asked why but was given no reason. "It was amazingly demoralizing," he says. "I'd never been fired and I'd never been unemployed. For three days I walked the streets. Though I had a bank account...
Eagle Eye. The show-biz tricks are buying time for a more fundamental reorganization. Guterman has cut costs by keeping an eagle eye on such things as how many ounces of peas or slices of beef a cafeteria counterman doles out, though he has continued the company's policy of having its executives sample the food regularly to maintain quality...
Mace. Specifically, Antioch's experiments in educating the poor have led to serious financial and administrative strains that have aroused student militants. They struck the campus for six weeks last winter in support of cafeteria workers who had been laid off. Last week, scholarship students and their sympathizers picketed to extract a promise from trustees not to cut financial aid. College employees refused to cross picket lines to collect trash. As part of their protest, striking students piled it in front of the administration building. Professors could hold classes only in their own homes because militants refused...