An Experiment in Worker Ownership

Across the railroad tracks, down a ways from Russ’s Truck Wash and Kleen-Maid Enriched Bread, around the corner from several taverns, the barber shop, and the local massage parlor, stand over a hundred multi-storied, antiquated brick-factory buildings. The majority of them, though constructed in the 1930s and ’40s and meagerly decorated with the sort of Gothic ornaments often found on old school buildings, are still solid.