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My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

— Bill Moseley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

— Ed Asner

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

— Do Won Chang

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

— Grace Lee Boggs

My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's from Lockheed, moved in. She was a lovely person and helped with our care for many years.

— Rene Russo

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

— Harold Evans

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.

— David Einhorn

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

— Donna Mills

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

— John Searles

✗Opposing Perspectives

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

— Robert Englund

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

— Stephen Pagliuca