The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda–the advertising industry. . Mary Doria Russell
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