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- Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board
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- Category : Labor
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Many people write about the ghetto. Piri Thomas lived there. In this book, the author of Down These Mean Streets tells what he found when he returned from a seven year prison term. Friends dying on heroin, or getting rich selling it. Jobs he couldn’t get, not because he lacked training or ability, but because the union was open only to whites. And an indomitable aunt who brought him into her church, where he met the woman who became his wife, and where he began to take an interest in helping others. Eventually he got a job working with street children—helping them find highs other than drugs, trying to cool rivalries fueled by frustration, persuading gang leaders to surrender weapons originally intended for bloody street battles. But even with success came bitter disappointments. Pervasive discrimination forced Thomas and his family to give up a suburban home. And an appalling hypocritical and selfish boss forced him out of his job—and almost back into prison. Piri Thomas writes of these experiences with unselfish candor and compassion. He pictures the poverty and squalor as well as the spirit and vitality of the ghetto in a dramatic story that is blunt, painful, absorbing and profoundly moving.
In Search of a Destiny is about Udup, a village boy from Kerala. He was a good student under the discipline of his father. Much against his wishes, he is sent to a boarding school. After graduation, he continues his higher studies. He takes several degrees in chemistry and teaches science in a school. He resigns from the school in order to look after his sick mother and obtains a job to teach chemistry closer to home. Against all odds, he competes and wins the Fulbright scholarship and leaves for the USA. At the university, he is overwhelmed with the hippie culture, women’s liberation, drug use and sexual freedom but stays at the sidelines. After submitting the PhD thesis at MSU, he tours Venezuela on being invited by his classmate and accepts a job from the Ministry of Education. He suffers misgivings of failure at the job for his lack of knowledge of Spanish, its people and culture. Against all odds, he survives, succeeds at work and returns to India to get married. He settles down with his wife Melody in Venezuela and raises three children. Eventually, he accepts a job from the petroleum industry. He is assigned to the Bon Bini island refinery but finds the going difficult and returns to Caracas. He moves his family to a border town in Venezuela near Colombia for the education of his children. His family becomes noted by the FARC. As the terrorists close in, he moves his family to New Jersey, where the family takes roots and his children graduate from good universities. After twenty two years, he retires from the petroleum industry and returns to India after being away for forty years while his children pursue the American dream. After settling down in his house in Kerala, he starts several projects for the good of the society.
A summary report prepared in cooperation with the Dirección de Montes, Minas, y Aquas, Ministerio de Agricultura, under the auspices of the Interdepartmental Conference on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation with the American Republics, Department of State.