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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...well as to the body." The historical horrors of industrialization (child labor, Dickensian squalor, the dark satanic mills) translate into the 20th century's robotic busywork on the line, tightening the same damned screw on the Camaro's firewall assembly, going nuts to the banging, jangling Chaplinesque whirr of modern materialism in labor, bringing forth issue, disgorging itself upon the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Is the Point of Working? | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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