November 21, 2008
Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press
Caption: "Paul Nawrocki of Beacon, N.Y., wore a signboard this week in Midtown Manhattan advertising his need for a full-time job with benefits. He said he has been looking for work for nine months."
See also: Business Week.
Sandwichman,
ReplyDeleteIs that you in the pic? I thought you had a beard.
And what are you doing showing off some guy who wants a "full-time job" when we know you advocate everybody cutting back their hours?
Not me. Well, the guy is unemployed and he's carrying a sandwich board. The whole "sandwichman" theme posits the s-man as an avatar of unemployment (see Susan Buck-Morss, "The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore" and James Rollerston "The Truth of Unemployment: Walter Benjamin Reads His Own Times."
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