Working People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
eBook - 2011
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 na...mes who share their anecdotes, adventures, and...
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The New Press
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- English
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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ASIN | B006CPAREQ |
Release Date | 7/19/2019 |
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ISBN | 9781595587664 |
Release Date | 7/19/2019 |