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From: Phoenix <populuxe@geocities.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 11:21:58 -0700
Subject: Re: oz 2
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Reply-To: populuxe@geocities.com
Boots wrote: > Tin Woodsman = Unionized factory workers (considered to be Heartless) I don't think we probably had much in the way of heartless union factory workers at the time Baum wrote Oz. Modern labor union protections came later. I think factory workers were still basically treated like shit. Hey -- hasn't somebody already debunked all this Oz-as-political-commentary theory here? I'm sure I read such.