Volume 19, Number 5 · October 5, 1972

Betrayed American Workers

By Jonathan Cobb, Richard Sennett

'Welfare!' a bricklayer snorts. 'Those lazy sluts having kids like it was a factory…. You don't work, you don't live, right?' Yet later, talking about his oldest boy: 'Why should he bust his balls to go to work, let him take it easy for a while—I've done some drifting of my own….'



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