blanket-stiffs

Updated: May 14, 2025

But now Jimmie was out among the "wobblies", the "blanket-stiffs" the unskilled workers who had literally nothing but their muscle-power to sell; here he was in the front-line trenches of the class war. These men wandered about from one job to another, at the mercy of the seasons and the fluctuations of industry.

Upton Sinclair - Jimmie Higgins