How Beautiful Are Thy Feet

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How Beautiful Are Thy Feet How Beautiful Are Thy Feet

Author: Alan Marshall

Category: Literature

Published: 2012

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A compassionate story of workers in a shoe factory during the DepressionA 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.