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Fruits of Honest Labor
If abundance was a hallmark of Thanksgiving postcards, a popular couplet explicitly linked that abundance to the farmer’s “honest labor.” In an increasingly industrial society, the emphasis on “honest labor” as a synonym for “rural” also implied that non-rural labor was less than honest, or at the very least an inferior kind of labor.
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