Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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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
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