The fabled world of the Yiddish theater on lower Second Avenue, where stars like Jacob Adler, Paul Muni and Molly Picon offered laughter and melodrama to factory workers and tenement dwellers in at least 14 theaters, was in steep decline when the Polish-born Ms. Bern arrived in New York in 1949.
"This dirty, scruffy place," Ahlberg calls it: full of factories and smoke, its dwellers "as white as mushrooms" because of the layer of smog that hung over the town, shielding them from the sun.
When the old Soviet-era factories were shut down, many city dwellers, who found themselves out of work and with little welfare support, returned to the traditional nomadic life.
But the factory workers, farm labourers and shack-dwellers of South Africa continue to be defined by their black race.
In the context of a city, it pulls a veil over the "old left" because it is based on a new subject: not the Fordist factory worker, but the precarious city dweller.
When Oakeshott describes conservatism as a "disposition" to enjoy the present, Manchester factory workers of the 1840s, or slum dwellers in contemporary Mumbai or Mexico City, are excluded.
Although he enrolled at N.Y.U., he was daunted by the long commute from North Jersey, and perhaps more so by the awkwardness of entering an academic environment dominated by 18- and 19-year-old city dwellers, so he ended up in my grandfather's embroidery factory.
And so to the problem of the Oompa-Loompas, described in Dahl's first draft as "pygmies", which even he realised was a bit dodgy, and presented in the final book as a tribe of jungle dwellers "saved" by Wonka and shipped in a crate to his factory, where their love of chocolate inspired them to work in contravention of EU labour laws.
Indoor plant factories are one of the alternative ways to meet the demands of food production for the increased urban dwellers.
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