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Title: Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1-56584-342-8 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Moving Oral Narrative
Comment: Studs Terkel is a master at getting people to open up, and careful to include several interviewees whose gripes help reinforce his liberal agenda. We hear a stockbroker, trucker, priest, hooker, teller, cops, teachers, autoworkers, and many others discuss their livelihoods. Readers come away appreciating the unique challenges of each job, and the powerlessness that afflicts many employees. These interviews occurred primarily in Chicago during the early 1970's, when the workplace featured fewer women and more jobs in heavy industry. We meet Mike, a steelworker annoyed by his lack of skills who senses that his union job may vanish - as occurred a few years later when US Steel shut their Chicago South Works. Barbara is a young advertising executive forced to deal with a level of office sexism one hopes is now passé. Ex-railroaders Bill and Louis each lament the shriveling of their once-vital industry from separate perches as retiree and washroom attendant. "Working" has many similar, compelling tales. The book may be slightly dated, but it remains a highly informative read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Follow your Dreams
Comment: This is a great book. It shows how real people feel about the job that they perform by interviewing them. Terkel describes his legacy of taped interviews this way: "It's the ordinary people, so called, who have things that they wanted to say all their lives, so this is something of a treasury I'd say." You read about it all, from waiters to teachers, from people who play sports to the people who work in offices. You learn that in order to be happy in life you must follow your dream and not do something based on status or salary. Many times people are being deprived of the potential joys in work when we are trained to focus too much on status and salary. Its better to wake up every morning looking forward to working than living a life full of regrets.
Rating: 5
Summary: We see what we want to see
Comment: Working has been my favorite book - likely the book that had the most implicit impact on the way I think - for many years. I pick it up every year and read a random section, put it back down, and pick it up again. Real stories, genuinely collected.
The comments are interesting - everyone interprets what Terkel gathered in a way that meets their own worldview. Not too surprising, but read it yourself, and draw your own conclusions - maybe even new ones.
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Title: American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565845455 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Studs Terkel's Working: A Teaching Guide by Rick Ayers, Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565846265 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565848373 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 03 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Race by Studs Terkel ISBN: 038546889X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565846567 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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