Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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when you went into that iron house

Every day you put your life on the line when you went into that iron house. Every day you sucked up dirt and took a chance on breaking our legs or breaking your back. And anyone who's worked in there knows what I'm talking about.

—p.28 Shut Up Shut Down by Mark Nowak
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what we can't afford in the first place

History, the arrow
pointing past
[inside this frame]--

interest at 2.9% for What
we can't afford in the first place

—p.22 by Mark Nowak
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I can't even speak proper

Forty years of hard work and what have I got to show for it? Nothing. [...] I can't even speak proper. Working-class kids writing their names on a wall that is bound to erase them. **When you're a steelworker (laughs), you don't get to speak the same language that you would do if you meet peopl…

—p.20 by Mark Nowak
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had a finger or something missing

The interruption of the closure, in this instance, by the frame: "LTV [Steel] was able to use its bankruptcy to reduce payments to productive workers." **In the old days when the city bus used to pull up to the factory gate, the driver would call out "butcher shop" or "slaughterhouse". In negotiati…

—p.13 by Mark Nowak
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