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Subject: SWEATING SYSTEM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` RAREFIED; THE SWEATER IS MADE FROM ONLY THE FINEST SOFTEST UNDERHAIRS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fancy-schmancy my father would have said
Subject(s): Introspection; Laborers - Taiwan; Sweatshops; Sweating System


SWEAT-SHOP SLAVES, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see my white-faced sisters of the foul tenements
Last Line: The devil-dance of the shuttles!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sweatshops; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Sweating System; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


THE SWEATSHOP POEM, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are thirty-one shallow graves in august
Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Sweatshops; Work; Workers; Sweating System


VISTAS OF LABOR: 3. IN A SWEATSHOP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pent in, and sickening for one wholesome draught
Last Line: That on the morrow they must meet again.
Subject(s): God; Home; Justice; Sin; Soul; Sweatshops; Sweating System