"Presents American workers discussing their jobs as they have experienced them between 1980 and today to illustrate the challenges of changed work in the labor market. The final chapter offers potential policy solutions"-- "What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years …
"Presents American workers discussing their jobs as they have experienced them between 1980 and today to illustrate the challenges of changed work in the labor market. The final chapter offers potential policy solutions"-- "What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years …
Studs Turkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Turkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but a…
Studs Turkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Turkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but a…
A collection of interviews with working people in a wide variety of occupations.
'We're Still Here' provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork and over 100 interviews with Black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Jennifer M. …
The economy has been brutal to American workers for decades. The chance to give one's children a better life - the promise at the heart of the American Dream - is withering away. And yet, the groups who stand to gain the most from mobilizing politically appear the least motivate…
The motivation to work
by Mausner, Bernard, Snyderman, Barbara Bloch, Herzberg, Frederick
An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.
Studs Terkel's Working: a graphic adaptation
by Terkel, Studs, Buhle, Paul, Pekar, Harvey
In the thirty-five years since Pulitzer Prizewinner Studs Terkel's Working first documented American workers' hopes and dreams, that "deep penetration of American thought and feeling" (Los Angeles Times) has sold over a million copies, captivating readers with accounts of how th…
Studs Terkel's Working: a graphic adaptation
by Terkel, Studs, Buhle, Paul, Pekar, Harvey
A graphic novel adaptation of Studs Terkel's interviews and accounts of the lives of ordinary Americans.