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This short story (3pg) by German Marxist Bertolt Brecht is very interesting for it's critique of gender roles, and also it's stark portrayal of what it means to have to work to live in a time of recession and mass unemployment. Brecht criticizes very well the view that women can only perform so called "woman work" or "feminine work," and makes the accurate point that anyone, man or woman can do any type of work, and act in any type of manner, and that the only things that prevents this is the rampant sexism in society, and the societal conditioning of people into their "right" or "correct" roles, defined of course solely by their gender, and not by the special abilities or interests that they may have. This story also shows what a job means to a worker who has been unemployed for a long period of time, and the lengths to which they are willing to go to obtain one. Enjoy comrades:

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The Job - Bertolt Brecht.pdf