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Working : People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel; Recorded Books, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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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- Author
- Studs Terkel; Recorded Books, Inc
- Publisher
- New Press, The
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781565843424
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Economics, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.21 / 5 (3,780 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Working (1974)
- Working (1975)
- Working : People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1985)
- Working People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do Studs Terkel (2011)
- Working : People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (2004)
- Working People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do Studs Terkel (1997)
- Working : People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1989)
- Working People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do Studs Terkel (2004)
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