Authorities routinely took orphans and children from socially deprived families and forced them into physical labor in the countryside. Now, swiss politicians have passed a law to compensate the victims. But for some like walter steck, no amount of money could ease the suffering he continues to endure. Reporter walter steck values good food. He loves cooking for himself, and for others. But when he was a child, he was never sure if there would be enough food. I wouldnt get breakfast if i had wet the bed. I wet my bed for a long, long time. So i was hungry for a long time. Reporter the swiss authorities deemed walter stecks parents social outcasts. They took him, and placed him in a foster family. There, he had no other choice than work on the fields to earn his living. At the tender age of 5, he had become one of thousands of socalled contract children. The house that stood here where walter grew up has been torn down. But it never felt like home to him anyway. We werent allowed to sit
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Good morning and welcome to today in new york at 10 00. So thankful you can join us. Im pat battle. Im gus rosendale. A lot of developments from when we last saw you at 8 30. Well t to them in a moment but first a quick check on the fo frecast. Raphael miranda with that. Getting milder already in the mid40s, but it was a cold start to the day. On Storm Tracker 4 live radar, very quiet conditions. A look at the weather headlines, we had the cold start north and west of town. Temperatures started out in the 30s and even the 20s. But the day gets better as it goes on turning into a beautifully nice afternoon. Well have dry weather to start the workweek but it does not finish that way. Youll see that in the sevenday forecast. High pressure in control again on this sunday morning. You can see temperatures are still cool at 45 degrees. We have sunshine in midtown. Not as chilly by lunchtime as we are back into the 50s. Did not make it to the 50s yesterday. And it is much less breezy than it
Person. I put up here the cover of one of Theodore Dreisers novels, sister carrie, and what we have been considering is a kind of fictional assault, right . On the victorian moral order. In Theodore Dreisers case, in naturalistic fiction. Naturalist writing. The attempt to get close to urban reality and recorded in the form record it in the form of a email adventurer female adventurer. He set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. And to use chicago as a kind of character in this story, to look at the booms, the busts, the travails of the characters in his novel. Just to summarize where we got last time, we saw the workings of many things. Not just a story, but a kind of commentary on early 20thcentury Century America and especially urban industrial america. We saw the workings of a new economy. The novel itself as a kind of allegory for capitalism and especially consumer culture that was constantly on the move, in which styles, fashions, identities, characte