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Labor Day pean for underappreciated workers

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Cultures can be astonishing. The hands-on workers who harvest our food, clean up after us, repair our property, look out after our health and safety conditions and serve as nannies to our children receive few honors, status or anywhere near the compensation of those who gamble with our money, entertain us or drive us into wars they don't fight themselves.

Shouldn't Labor Day be a time to gather and contemplate such inverted values and celebrate those who toil without proper recognition?

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Yes, it should. by GLloyd Rowsey on Friday, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:26:07 PM
Real work by Miriam Callaghan on Saturday, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:03:22 PM