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Losing his job when his factory-owner employers leave town for cheaper labor in another part of the country, Jake Skowran, who has also lost his girlfriend to another man, reluctantly takes up an illegal line of work.
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By the Author of A Working Stiff’s Manifesto The work Jake Skowran is offered is a lot less than legal. He’s got little choice except to take it. The guys who owned the factory have left town for someplace with more sun and cheaper labor. The deserted plant is fenced in and the fence topped with razor wire, as if they’d worried that the locals would steal tractor-building equipment and start making tractors in their basements. Jake’s girlfriend has also decamped (along with the entertainment center). “She went off with some used car dealer, huh?” his bookie mocks. “He was a new car dealer,” Jake retorts. With unemployment running out, he’s up for anything.
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