buy shirts for some men
out of work as no work to
manufacture shirts
Adapted from the passage, “Within my lifetime in England money was (very properly) collected to buy shirts for some men who were out of work. The work they were out of was the manufacture of shirts.”
Written by CS Lewis in the essay GOOD WORK AND GOOD WORKS published in The World’s Last Night and Other Essays, 1960, Harcourt, Brace and Company