If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields and into the labor camps. Then they’d know how that fine salad got on their … - Studs Terkel

Lord, I’m so low down, baby,
I declare I’m looking up at down. The men in the mine, baby,
They all looking down at me.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

Freud put it one way. Ralph Helstein puts it another. He is president emeritus of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. “Learning is work. Caring for children is work. Community action is work. Once we accept the concept of work as something meaningful — not just as the source of a buck — you don’t have to worry about finding enough jobs. There’s no excuse for mules any more. Society does not need them. There’s no question about our ability to feed and clothe and house everybody. The problem is going to come in finding enough ways for man to keep occupied, so he’s in touch with reality.” Our imaginations have obviously not yet been challenged.