“Conditions like those in America”
Just a sad little article from Der Spiegel about the lives of some former textile workers in North Carolina. The tone of bemused pity is what caught my attention:
Nicholas Gennett and Jeanie Moore say that they would have liked to take him along to Philadelphia to receive their award. Why? Because he is what they call a success story in their “Special Group of the Labor Force.” Johnson, an ailing man pushing 60, who works 15 hours a day so that he won’t lose his house, is their success story.