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How Beautiful Are Thy Feet
Author(s): Alan Marshall (Author)
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Publication Date: 10 Jan. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1743313934
- ISBN-13: 9781743313930
Book Description
‘A thousand pairs a day . . . ‘ – this is the rhythm ruling the lives of workers in a Melbourne shoe factory in the 1930s, a rhythm devouring their youth, their laughter, their hopes for the future. For those enmeshed in the life of the Modern Shoe Co. – the crippled accountant, the vindictive foreman, the inept management unable to stem the slide to financial disaster, the kind-hearted forewoman and the pathetically young girls in their first job – there is also a rhythm of love and camaraderie, of intrigue and hate, of exploitation and grinding poverty.
