"Working for the church" is a phrase from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. In it, immigrant meatpacking workers called wage theft work, or unsavory and illegal assignments "working for the church", referring to the corrupt plant owner's hypocritical missionary work. Those characters' precarious circumstances aligns well with the story in this song.
"Working for the church" is a phrase from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. In it, immigrant meatpacking workers called wage theft work, or unsavory and illegal assignments "working for the church", referring to the corrupt plant owner's hypocritical missionary work. Those characters' precarious circumstances aligns well with the story in this song.