Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...working as an unskilled laborer under an assumed name in three steel mills, two coal mines, two shipyards, an oil refinery, and a railway roundhouse. During this period he kept an interesting diary which has since been published by Scribner's under the title of "What is on the Worker's Mind," and has gone into the second edition. In the summer of 1920, Mr. Williams spent three months working in the coal mines of New South Wales and trying to get jobs as a man out of work in the steel slants, docks, and shipyards of England, Scotland...
...person can approach such a laborer in the right way, he will find that he is very much like the average person. In my experience, I have found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal...
...America the job is the most important property in so far as its income producing ability is concerned. The attitude of well-to-do people differs from that of the unskilled worker only in so far that the people better off are able to stand a few weeks or months of unemployment while the other chap may be forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker...
...Worker Constantly Fears Unemployment...
...best thing I know about the human being is that under normal conditions he wants to demonstrate his standing as a man among men by proving himself a worker among other workers. In America at least the workmen do not want a larger share in the management so much as they want the satisfactions which should go with the job but are too often taken away from them by the hard-fisted and driving foremen...