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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Book Title
- The Way We Work
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780826516091
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10
0826516092
ISBN-13
9780826516091
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66591375
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Way We Work : Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace
Subject
Careers / General, Sociology / General, Anthropology / General, Essays
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Business & Economics, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2008-019023
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
I'd like to express the sense of excitement thatThe Way We Workgenerates in me as a teacher at a working-class university, where students and instructors alike would greatly benefit from the use of this book in introductory writing courses.The Way We Workgoes far beyond the limits of the multicultural readers that stress human commonalties in a more sentimental, celebratory, and merely experiential way. The emphasis on work takes us to a core conception of what it means to be human and reminds us of the pressures exerted on our humanity by our present-day social and economic arrangements. --Barbara Foley, Rutgers-Newark, It's a book that readers will love to pick up again and again, particularly if they have to smuggle the book onto the factory line, behind the counter, or into their cubicle to read it. --ForeWord Magazine, "It's a book that readers will love to pick up again and again, particularly if they have to smuggle the book onto the factory line, behind the counter, or into their cubicle to read it." Katerie Prior, ForeWord Magazine., THE WAY WE WORK surprised and delighted me at every turn, because of the sheer strangeness it unpacks from the dailiness and (often) stupidity of work, and even more because of the the writing's freshness. People who teach about work will want to put this book on the syllabus, right alongside Studs Terkel. Richard Ohmann, The Way We Work surprised and delighted me at every turn, because of the sheer strangeness it unpacks from the dailiness and (often) stupidity of work, and even more because of the the writing's freshness. People who teach about work will want to put this book on the syllabus, right alongside Studs Terkel. --Richard Ohmann, "[The Way We Work is] a book that readers will love to pick up again and again, particularly if they have to smuggle the book onto the factory line, behind the counter, or into their cubicle to read it." Foreward Magazine, September 2008, It's a book that readers will love to pick up again and again, particularly if they have to smuggle the book onto the factory line, behind the counter, or into their cubicle to read it. -- ForeWord Magazine, I’d like to express the sense of excitement that *The Way We Work* generates in me as a teacher at a working-class university, where students and instructors alike would greatly benefit from the use of this book in introductory writing courses. *The Way We Work* goes far beyond the limits of the multicultural readers that stress human commonalties in a more sentimental, celebratory, and merely experiential way. The emphasis on work takes us to a core conception of what it means to be human and reminds us of the pressures exerted on our humanity by our present-day social and economic arrangements. Barbara Foley, Rutgers-Newark, The Way We Worksurprised and delighted me at every turn, because of the sheer strangeness it unpacks from the dailiness and (often) stupidity of work, and even more because of the the writing's freshness. People who teach about work will want to put this book on the syllabus, right alongside Studs Terkel. --Richard Ohmann, I'd like to express the sense of excitement that The Way We Work generates in me as a teacher at a working-class university, where students and instructors alike would greatly benefit from the use of this book in introductory writing courses. The Way We Work goes far beyond the limits of the multicultural readers that stress human commonalties in a more sentimental, celebratory, and merely experiential way. The emphasis on work takes us to a core conception of what it means to be human and reminds us of the pressures exerted on our humanity by our present-day social and economic arrangements. --Barbara Foley, Rutgers-Newark
Dewey Decimal
306.3/60973
Table Of Content
CHICKEN 81 by Sarah L. Courteau Nonfiction Occupation: Industrial Poultry Farm Worker ORIENTATION by Daniel Orozco Fiction Occupation: Office Worker THAT JOY THAT PACKS THE BODY by Andrew Miller Poetry Occupation: Tuna Canner HATCHET MAN by Leo Parascondola Nonfiction Occupation: Bus Driver COINS by Mona Simpson Fiction Occupation: Nanny MORRISON''S, 1968 by Rick Campbell Poetry Occupation: Restaurant Worker THE MIDNIGHT TOUR by Marcus Laffey Nonfiction Occupation: Police Officer DIRTY TALK by Amanda Scheiderer Nonfiction Occupation: Stripper WOMANHOOD by Catherine Anderson Poetry Occupation: Textile Worker CONCRETE MEN by Dan Pope Fiction Occupation: Construction Laborer WE WHO HAVE ESCAPED by Leigh Hancock Poetry Occupation: Various-Secretary, Carpet Layer, Food Service Worker, Factory Worker, Custodial Staff TORCH SONG by Charles Bowden Nonfiction Occupation: Reporter WHEN I WAS ELEVEN by Ed McManis Poetry Occupation: Unknown MCDONALD''S, WE DO IT ALL FOR YOU by Barbara Garson Nonfiction Occupation: Food Service Worker THE RIVER BOTTOM RANCH by Marcial Gonzalez Fiction Occupation: Farm Worker/Fruit Picker ONE WOMAN WATCHING by Linda Kantner Nonfiction Occupation: Social Worker JOBBED by Philip Levine Nonfiction Occupation: Assistant Handy Man and Delivery Boy THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR BOSS by Elizabeth Kerlikowske Poetry Occupation: Generalized Boss THE TROUBLE WITH GUIDEBOOKS by J. C. Ross Fiction Occupation: Assistant Bookstore Manager DEBT by Will Watson Poetry Occupation: Steel Factory Worker THE SUICIDAL FREEZER Unit by Tom Wolfe Fiction Occupation: Picker/Box Loader PHOTOGRAPH: MIGRANT WORKER, PARLIER CALIFORNIA, 1967 by Larry Levis Poetry Occupation: Migrant Fruit Picker AFTER COWBOY CHICKEN CAME TO TOWN by Ha Jin Fiction Occupation: Food Service Worker JOB by Erika Meitner Poetry Occupation: Office Worker LIVELIHOOD by Lou Fisher Fiction Occupation: Unemployed Office Worker THE FIREMAN by Rick Bass Fiction Occupation: Volunteer Fireman WHITE BOOTS by William Pitt Root Poetry Occupation: Coal Miner THE DOG by Nathan Long Fiction Occupation: Migrant Fruit Picker AFTER GARBAGE MEN by Jay Snodgrass Poetry Occupation: Truck Cleaner THE WOMEN WHO CLEAN FISH by Erica Funkhouser Poetry Occupation: Fish Cleaner APPOINTED ROUTE by Ben Satterfield Fiction Occupation: Mailman THE BASEMENT by Paula Champa Fiction Occupation: Temporary Office Worker LABOR #1 by Clay Blancett Poetry Occupation: Carpenter SENIORS'' LAST HOUR (ALCOA ALUMINUM, NORTH PLANT, ALCOA, TN) by Richard Joines Poetry Occupation: Factory Worker AT WORK by Mary Malinda Polk Nonfiction Occupation: Legal Secretary IF LANGUAGE WAS A HOUSE OF BEING by Darren Morris Poetry Occupation: Technical Editor and Writer HE''S AT THE OFFICE by Allan Gurganus Fiction Occupation: Office Worker BY APPOINTMENT by Lisa Buchanan Fiction Occupation: Sex Worker SPINNER, COTTON MILL, 1908-1909 by Jorn Ake Poetry Occupation: Textile Worker JANE by Ambur Economou Fiction Occupation: Physician QUITTING THE PAINT FACTORY by Mark Slouka Essay Occupation: Various W... by Shirlee Hoffman Poetry Occupation: All
Synopsis
The Way We Work reveals that a seismic change has occurred in the workplace since the appearance in 1974 of Studs Terkel's Working . Terkel's subjects, despite their alienation, had a sense of themselves as workers and felt that in the workplace they were part of a community.The people Terkel interviewed were highly class conscious in a way that today seems radical and even anachronistic. By contrast, while some of the narrators in The Way We Work feel passionate about their work, others are barely conscious that they are workers. In transit from one job to another, some workers find it hard to take either their co-workers or their job situation too much to heart. One pronoun rarely used by the narrators of the works in this anthology is we. Each of the 43 pieces in The Way We Work represents a voice that is idiosyncratic, ironic, or humorous. Alongside such acclaimed writers as Tom Wolfe, Rick Bass, Barbara Garson, Ha Jin, Charles Bowden, Erica Funkhouser, Allan Gurganus, Catherine Anderson, Philip Levine, Edward Conlon, and Mona Simpson, appear the narratives of little-known writers. No other collection of writings about contemporary work in this country showcases the personal accounts of employees from a creative, literary perspective. These writings address such current issues as the effects of globalization, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and the weakening of unions, as well as a general sense of worker disengagement in the workplace. Speaking in multiple genres, the men and women whose voices are collected here run the whole gamut of the workplace. From an executive at an office products company to a migrant fruit picker to a stripper to a doctor to a cleaner of garbage trucks, The Way We Work captures, with passion and honesty, the experiences of a myriad of workers., The Way We Work reveals that a seismic change has occurred in the workplace since the appearance in 1974 of Studs Terkel's Working . Terkel's subjects, despite their alienation, had a sense of themselves as workers and felt that in the workplace they were part of a community.The people Terkel interviewed were highly class conscious in a way that today seems radical and even anachronistic. By contrast, while some of the narrators in The Way We Work feel passionate about their work, others are barely conscious that they are "workers." In transit from one job to another, some workers find it hard to take either their co-workers or their job situation too much to heart. One pronoun rarely used by the narrators of the works in this anthology is "we." Each of the 43 pieces in The Way We Work represents a voice that is idiosyncratic, ironic, or humorous. Alongside such acclaimed writers as Tom Wolfe, Rick Bass, Barbara Garson, Ha Jin, Charles Bowden, Erica Funkhouser, Allan Gurganus, Catherine Anderson, Philip Levine, Edward Conlon, and Mona Simpson, appear the narratives of little-known writers. No other collection of writings about contemporary work in this country showcases the personal accounts of employees from a creative, literary perspective. These writings address such current issues as the effects of globalization, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and the weakening of unions, as well as a general sense of worker disengagement in the workplace. Speaking in multiple genres, the men and women whose voices are collected here run the whole gamut of the workplace. From an executive at an office products company to a migrant fruit picker to a stripper to a doctor to a cleaner of garbage trucks, The Way We Work captures, with passion and honesty, the experiences of a myriad of workers.
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