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Working : People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do by Studs Terkel (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-101565843428

ISBN-139781565843424

eBay Product ID (ePID)121847

Product Key Features

Book TitleWorking : People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do

Number of Pages640 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicLabor & Industrial Relations, Sociology / General, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Labor

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorStuds Terkel

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight25 oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN73-018037

ReviewsPraise for Working: "Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking." --The Boston Globe "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 "Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to one another. [Working] helped inform the choices I made in my own work." --President Barack Obama "I cannot find words to express sufficiently my admiration for Studs Terkel's Working. . . . Only an interviewer of genius, exploiting the tape recorder as hardly anyone else has done, could possibly have brought it forth." --Lewis Mumford, Praise for Working: "Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking." --The Boston Globe "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 "Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to one another. [Working] helped inform the choices I made in my own work." --President Barack Obama "I cannot find words to express sufficiently my admiration for Studs Terkel's Working. . . . Only an interviewer of genius, exploiting the tape recorder as hardly anyone else has done, could possibly have brought it forth." --Lewis Mumford

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal331.2/0973/09047

SynopsisThis text takes a look at work in the 20th century, with accounts from a variety of people about their jobs., Studs Terkel's classic oral history of Americans' working lives--and the inspiration for Barack Obama's new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century "Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to one another. [ Working ] helped inform the choices I made in my own work." --President Barack Obama Perhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a moving snapshot of people's feelings about their working lives, as well as a timeless look at how work fits into American life. Working received rave reviews upon its initial publication, including from the New York Times Book Review , which praised its "incredible abundance of marvelous beings" and "very special electricity and emotional power," and the Boston Globe , which called it a "magnificent book . . . a work of art," adding, "To read it is to hear America talking." Nearly fifty years after its initial publication, Working remains a deeply relevant American classic, one of the most important works of oral history ever published., Studs Terkel's classic oral history of Americans' working lives--and the inspiration for Barack Obama's new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century "Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to one another. [Working] helped inform the choices I made in my own work." --President Barack Obama Perhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a moving snapshot of people's feelings about their working lives, as well as a timeless look at how work fits into American life. Working received rave reviews upon its initial publication, including from the New York Times Book Review, which praised its "incredible abundance of marvelous beings" and "very special electricity and emotional power," and the Boston Globe, which called it a "magnificent book . . . a work of art," adding, "To read it is to hear America talking." Nearly fifty years after its initial publication, Working remains a deeply relevant American classic, one of the most important works of oral history ever published., Perhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a timeless snapshot of people's feelings about their working lives, as well as a relevant and lasting look at how work fits into American life.

LC Classification NumberHD8072.T4