The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East
Walter A. Wyckoff
Read by PhyllisV
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any job he could find, enduring hardships and struggling to make a living. He travelled mainly on foot, designing for himself a social experiment on experiencing different class and culture structures and the reality of working conditions at the end of the 19th century. This volume covers the Eastern part of the United States. - Summary by Phyllis Vincelli
The second volume The Workers - An Experiment in Reality - the West covers the Western part of the United States. (7 hr 42 min)
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Manual work does not empower the soul
Bill Cosby
This story would be a classic if it were 1924. Today it shows the author to in fact be a Donald Trump. The author, an old white male college graduate, sets off to understand the working class by engaging in work. The problem is that working class people no longer work. Now, the working class folks engage in gay sec to show the opposition to the raycyst fascism of Donald Trump. The author, an old white cis-normative Donald Trump, thinks he can be embraced by the prolitariate with a little performative manual labor. Not the case. It instead, requires a commitment to wholesome gay sec along with an investment in Black Rock capital to show you are firmly on the left and committed to social justice. Actual physical labor removes jobs from oppressed LatinX guest workers who are essential to ensure the working class folks don't have to do any work and can instead run nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping poor folks. This post sponsored by Bane Capital. Ensuring equity