Word: steeltown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaffirms his sense of solidarity with laborers in other works. "The Cradle Will Rock" (1936), set in Steeltown, U. S. A., attacks the bourgeois who sell out to big business. In "No for an Answer" (1940) he pleads the case of summer workers facing seasonal unemployment. And his opera "Regina" (1949) is based on Lillian Hellman's anti-capitalist play "The Little Foxes...