Clara's husband is a drunken workingman whom she has undermined by her social and intellectual superiority, so their situation mirrors that of the Morels. |
There was a wave of strikes in 1911 and 1912, some of them tinged with syndicalist ideology, all of them asserting, in difficult economic circumstances for the workingman, claims that had seldom been made before. |
Mamet is certainly a workingman, even though, at a million and a half dollars a movie, he's far from a wage slave. |
But in Philadelphia an artisan or workingman could through ground rent gain access to land and build low-cost houses. |
Never forget that a workingman is not a slave, and that whoever is not a workingman is a lazy drone. |
The workingman cannot, then, repurchase that which he has produced for his master. |