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Technical Workers for Light Industry: 1961–1970

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A passage in the famous book pictured a young girl sitting in the second-class compartment of a train, her hands holding a book of French poetry. “Your white hands,” the author asserted, “I abhor.” Clean hands, he continued, “have been responsible for our present misery.” Smooth hands were the hands of the privileged class. That class, and privilege consciousness in general, had to be replaced. “We must work,” the author continued, because “one cannot survive with clean hands.”1

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Han, K., Downey, G.L. (2014). Technical Workers for Light Industry: 1961–1970. In: Engineers for Korea. Synthesis Lectures on Global Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02128-2_3

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