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Does each class off Coketown have different jobs?

 

tiffany r #222575
Jan 02, 2012 6:59 PM

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Does each class off Coketown have different jobs?

in coketown, with the "clss" you were brought into, is there a diffeent jobs than another person in a different class.

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Roskolnikov
Jan 02, 2012 8:05 PM

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The most interesting "division of labor" in Hard Times is the distinction between "hands" and "legs." The former represents the intense physical labor of the typical factory setting in the British Industrial Revolution. The latter is primarily concerned with a different kind of "labor": namely, sexuality.
 

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