Rating: Not rated
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, History, Social History, Political Science, Labor & Industrial Relations, Business & Economics, Labor, Lang:en
Publisher: The New Press
Added: December 6, 2020
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen
to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To
read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston
Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times
bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history
Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who
do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with
everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book
provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of
people’s feelings about their working lives. This
edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist
Adam Cohen (Forbes).
“Splendid . . .
Important . . . Rich and
fascinating . . . The people we meet are not
digits in a poll but real people with real names who share
their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.”
—Business Week “The talk
in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate,
honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality,
seasoned with experience.” —The Washington
Post