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Labor of Love

LAST NOVEMBER, LaTOYA Ruby Frazier got wind of the kind of news she finds both troubling and creatively motivating. General Motors was planning to close five North American plants in the coming year. The first would be in Lordstown, Ohio, where the since-discontinued Chevrolet Cruze was made. Thousands of workers there would be either out of a job or forced to relocate.

“I was thinking about how that many workers being laid off or made to move

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