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The Resource Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do, Studs Terkel ; [with a new foreword by Adam Cohen]

Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do, Studs Terkel ; [with a new foreword by Adam Cohen]

Label
Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do
Title
Working
Title remainder
people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do
Statement of responsibility
Studs Terkel ; [with a new foreword by Adam Cohen]
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams
Cataloging source
CWJ
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1912-2008
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Terkel, Studs
Dewey number
305.5620973
Index
no index present
LC call number
HD8072
LC item number
.T4 2004
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Working class
  • Working class
  • Work
  • United States
  • Middle class
  • Middle class
Label
Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do, Studs Terkel ; [with a new foreword by Adam Cohen]
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Who spreads the news?
  • Billy Carpenter
  • [Newsboy]
  • Cliff Pickens
  • [Newsboy]
  • Terry Pickens
  • [Newsboy]
  • Preface 3.
  • Mason
  • Carl Murray Bates
  • Acknowledgments
  • [Stonemason]
  • bk. 1.
  • Working the land
  • Pierce Walker, farmer
  • Roberto Acuna, farm worker
  • Aunt Katherine Haynes, farm woman
  • Joe and Susie Haynes, deep miner and his wife
  • Rob Sanders, strip miner
  • Hub Dillard, heavy equipment operator
  • bk. 2.
  • Foreword
  • [pt. 1].
  • Communication
  • Sharon Atkins, receptionist
  • Frances Swenson, hotel switchboard operator
  • Heather Lamb, telephone operator
  • Jack Hunter, professor of communications
  • [pt. 2].
  • Pecking order
  • Terry Mason, airline stewardess
  • Beryl Simpson, airline reservationist
  • Introduction
  • Jill Torrance, model
  • Anne Bogan, executive secretary
  • Roberta Victor, hook
  • [pt. 3].
  • Did you ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter?
  • Barbara Herrick, writer/producer
  • [pt. 4].
  • Commercial
  • John Fortune, copy chief
  • Arny Freeman, actor
  • Preface 1.
  • Rip Torn, actor
  • Eddie Jaffe, press agent
  • Richard Mann, installment dealer
  • Enid du Bois, telephone solicitor --
  • Who built the pyramids?
  • Mike LeFevre
  • [Steelworker]
  • Preface 2.
  • Eric Hoellen, janitor
  • [pt. 2].
  • Watching
  • Fritz Ritter, doorman
  • Vincent Maher, policeman
  • Renault Robinson, policeman
  • Anthony Ruggiero, industrial investigator
  • Jill Freedman, photographer
  • Pauline Kael, film critic
  • bk. 4.
  • bk. 3.
  • Demon lover
  • [pt. 1].
  • Making
  • Phil Stallings, spot-welder
  • Jim Grayson, spot-welder
  • Hobart Foote, utility man
  • Ned Williams, stock chaser
  • Tom Brand, plant manager
  • Wheeler Stanley, general foreman
  • Gary Bryner, president, Lordstown Local, UAW
  • [pt. 1].
  • [pt. 2].
  • Driving
  • Booker Page, cabdriver
  • Lucky Miller, cabdriver
  • Will Robinson, bus driver
  • Frank Decker, interstate trucker
  • [pt. 3].
  • Parking
  • Alfred Pommier, car hiker
  • [pt. 4].
  • Cleaning up
  • Selling
  • Johnny Bosworth, car salesman
  • bk. 5.
  • [pt. 1].
  • Appearance
  • Sam Mature, barber
  • Edward and Hazel Zimmer, hair stylists
  • Jean Stanley, cosmetics saleswoman
  • Dr. Stephen Bartlett, dentist
  • Doc Pritchard, hotel clerk
  • Nick Salerno, sanitation truck driver
  • Hots Michaels, bar pianist
  • Teddy Grodowski, elevator starter
  • Tim Devlin, janitor, ex-salesman
  • [pt. 2].
  • Counting
  • Nancy Rogers, bank teller
  • Fred Roman, auditor
  • [pt. 3].
  • Footwork
  • Jack Spiegel, organizer
  • Roy Schmidt, garbage man
  • Alice Washington, order filler, shoe factory
  • John Fuller, mail carrier
  • Conrad Swibel, gas meter reader
  • Brett Hauser, supermarket box boy
  • Babe Secoli, supermarket checker
  • Thomas Rush, skycap
  • Grace Clements, felter, luggage factory
  • Delores Dante, waitress
  • [pt. 4].
  • Just a housewife
  • Louis Hayward, washroom attendant
  • Therese Carter
  • Jesusita Novarro --
  • Lincoln James, factory mechanic
  • Maggie Holmes, domestic
  • Margaret Richards, realty broker
  • James Carson, yacht broker
  • David Reed Glover, stockbroker
  • Ray Wax, stockbroker
  • [pt. 3].
  • Bureaucracy
  • Steve Carmichael, project coordinator
  • Lilith Reynolds, government relations coordinator
  • Diane Wilson, process clerk
  • [pt. 4].
  • bk. 6.
  • Organizer
  • Bill Talcott
  • bk. 7.
  • [pt. 1].
  • Sporting life
  • Eddie Arroyo, jockey
  • Steve Hamilton, baseball player
  • Blackie Mason, sports press agent
  • Jeanne Douglas, tennis player
  • Eric Nesterenko, hockey player
  • [pt. 1].
  • George Allen, football coach
  • [pt. 2].
  • In charge
  • Ward Quaal, TV/radio executive
  • Dave Bender, factory owner
  • Ernest Bradshaw, audit department head, bank
  • Peter Keeley, ex-boss
  • Lois Keeley Novak, his daughter
  • Larry Ross, ex-president of conglomerate; consultant
  • [pt. 3].
  • Quiet life
  • Ma and Pa courage
  • George and Irene Brewer
  • [pt. 4].
  • Reflections on idleness and retirement
  • Barbara Terwilliger, idleness
  • Bill Norworth, retired railroad engineer
  • Joe Zmuda, ex-shipping clerk --
  • Donna Murray, bookbinder
  • Nino Guidici, pharmacist
  • Eugene Russell, piano tuner
  • [pt. 2].
  • Brokers
  • Ken Brown, executive
  • Kay Stepkin, director of bakery cooperative
  • Cathleen Moran, hospital aide
  • [pt. 2].
  • Cradle to grave
  • Ruth Lindstrom, baby nurse
  • Rose Hoffman, public school teacher
  • Pat Zimmerman, alternative school teacher
  • Kitty Scanlan, occupational therapist
  • Betsy DeLacy, patients' representative
  • bk. 8.
  • Carmelita Lester, practical nurse, old people's home
  • Herbert Bach, memorial counselor
  • Elmer Ruiz, gravedigger
  • bk. 9.
  • [pt. 1].
  • Quiz kid and the carpenter
  • Bruce Fletcher, tree nursery attendant
  • Nick Lindsay, carpenter/poet
  • [pt. 2].
  • In search of a calling
  • [pt. 1].
  • Nora Watson, editor
  • Walter Lundquist, industrial designer
  • Rebecca Sweeney, nun to naprapath
  • [pt. 3].
  • Second chance
  • Fred Ringley, ex-salesman; farmer
  • Philip da Vinci, lawyer
  • Sarah Houghton, librarian
  • Mario Anichini, stone cutter
  • [pt. 4].
  • Age of Charlie Blossom
  • Fathers and sons
  • Glen Stribling, service station owner
  • Dave Stribling, his son and partner
  • Steve Dubi, steelworker
  • Father Leonard Dubi, his son, a priest
  • Jack Currier, teacher, adult education
  • Harold Patrick, freight elevator operator
  • Bob Patrick, policeman
  • Tom Patrick, fireman
  • Charlie Blossom, copy boy
  • Steven Simonyi-Gindele, publisher
  • Tom McCoy, proofreader
  • Ralph Werner, department store salesman
  • Bud Freeman, jazz musician
Control code
ocm64774012
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xlix, 589 pages
Isbn
9781565849440
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)64774012
Label
Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do, Studs Terkel ; [with a new foreword by Adam Cohen]
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Who spreads the news?
  • Billy Carpenter
  • [Newsboy]
  • Cliff Pickens
  • [Newsboy]
  • Terry Pickens
  • [Newsboy]
  • Preface 3.
  • Mason
  • Carl Murray Bates
  • Acknowledgments
  • [Stonemason]
  • bk. 1.
  • Working the land
  • Pierce Walker, farmer
  • Roberto Acuna, farm worker
  • Aunt Katherine Haynes, farm woman
  • Joe and Susie Haynes, deep miner and his wife
  • Rob Sanders, strip miner
  • Hub Dillard, heavy equipment operator
  • bk. 2.
  • Foreword
  • [pt. 1].
  • Communication
  • Sharon Atkins, receptionist
  • Frances Swenson, hotel switchboard operator
  • Heather Lamb, telephone operator
  • Jack Hunter, professor of communications
  • [pt. 2].
  • Pecking order
  • Terry Mason, airline stewardess
  • Beryl Simpson, airline reservationist
  • Introduction
  • Jill Torrance, model
  • Anne Bogan, executive secretary
  • Roberta Victor, hook
  • [pt. 3].
  • Did you ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter?
  • Barbara Herrick, writer/producer
  • [pt. 4].
  • Commercial
  • John Fortune, copy chief
  • Arny Freeman, actor
  • Preface 1.
  • Rip Torn, actor
  • Eddie Jaffe, press agent
  • Richard Mann, installment dealer
  • Enid du Bois, telephone solicitor --
  • Who built the pyramids?
  • Mike LeFevre
  • [Steelworker]
  • Preface 2.
  • Eric Hoellen, janitor
  • [pt. 2].
  • Watching
  • Fritz Ritter, doorman
  • Vincent Maher, policeman
  • Renault Robinson, policeman
  • Anthony Ruggiero, industrial investigator
  • Jill Freedman, photographer
  • Pauline Kael, film critic
  • bk. 4.
  • bk. 3.
  • Demon lover
  • [pt. 1].
  • Making
  • Phil Stallings, spot-welder
  • Jim Grayson, spot-welder
  • Hobart Foote, utility man
  • Ned Williams, stock chaser
  • Tom Brand, plant manager
  • Wheeler Stanley, general foreman
  • Gary Bryner, president, Lordstown Local, UAW
  • [pt. 1].
  • [pt. 2].
  • Driving
  • Booker Page, cabdriver
  • Lucky Miller, cabdriver
  • Will Robinson, bus driver
  • Frank Decker, interstate trucker
  • [pt. 3].
  • Parking
  • Alfred Pommier, car hiker
  • [pt. 4].
  • Cleaning up
  • Selling
  • Johnny Bosworth, car salesman
  • bk. 5.
  • [pt. 1].
  • Appearance
  • Sam Mature, barber
  • Edward and Hazel Zimmer, hair stylists
  • Jean Stanley, cosmetics saleswoman
  • Dr. Stephen Bartlett, dentist
  • Doc Pritchard, hotel clerk
  • Nick Salerno, sanitation truck driver
  • Hots Michaels, bar pianist
  • Teddy Grodowski, elevator starter
  • Tim Devlin, janitor, ex-salesman
  • [pt. 2].
  • Counting
  • Nancy Rogers, bank teller
  • Fred Roman, auditor
  • [pt. 3].
  • Footwork
  • Jack Spiegel, organizer
  • Roy Schmidt, garbage man
  • Alice Washington, order filler, shoe factory
  • John Fuller, mail carrier
  • Conrad Swibel, gas meter reader
  • Brett Hauser, supermarket box boy
  • Babe Secoli, supermarket checker
  • Thomas Rush, skycap
  • Grace Clements, felter, luggage factory
  • Delores Dante, waitress
  • [pt. 4].
  • Just a housewife
  • Louis Hayward, washroom attendant
  • Therese Carter
  • Jesusita Novarro --
  • Lincoln James, factory mechanic
  • Maggie Holmes, domestic
  • Margaret Richards, realty broker
  • James Carson, yacht broker
  • David Reed Glover, stockbroker
  • Ray Wax, stockbroker
  • [pt. 3].
  • Bureaucracy
  • Steve Carmichael, project coordinator
  • Lilith Reynolds, government relations coordinator
  • Diane Wilson, process clerk
  • [pt. 4].
  • bk. 6.
  • Organizer
  • Bill Talcott
  • bk. 7.
  • [pt. 1].
  • Sporting life
  • Eddie Arroyo, jockey
  • Steve Hamilton, baseball player
  • Blackie Mason, sports press agent
  • Jeanne Douglas, tennis player
  • Eric Nesterenko, hockey player
  • [pt. 1].
  • George Allen, football coach
  • [pt. 2].
  • In charge
  • Ward Quaal, TV/radio executive
  • Dave Bender, factory owner
  • Ernest Bradshaw, audit department head, bank
  • Peter Keeley, ex-boss
  • Lois Keeley Novak, his daughter
  • Larry Ross, ex-president of conglomerate; consultant
  • [pt. 3].
  • Quiet life
  • Ma and Pa courage
  • George and Irene Brewer
  • [pt. 4].
  • Reflections on idleness and retirement
  • Barbara Terwilliger, idleness
  • Bill Norworth, retired railroad engineer
  • Joe Zmuda, ex-shipping clerk --
  • Donna Murray, bookbinder
  • Nino Guidici, pharmacist
  • Eugene Russell, piano tuner
  • [pt. 2].
  • Brokers
  • Ken Brown, executive
  • Kay Stepkin, director of bakery cooperative
  • Cathleen Moran, hospital aide
  • [pt. 2].
  • Cradle to grave
  • Ruth Lindstrom, baby nurse
  • Rose Hoffman, public school teacher
  • Pat Zimmerman, alternative school teacher
  • Kitty Scanlan, occupational therapist
  • Betsy DeLacy, patients' representative
  • bk. 8.
  • Carmelita Lester, practical nurse, old people's home
  • Herbert Bach, memorial counselor
  • Elmer Ruiz, gravedigger
  • bk. 9.
  • [pt. 1].
  • Quiz kid and the carpenter
  • Bruce Fletcher, tree nursery attendant
  • Nick Lindsay, carpenter/poet
  • [pt. 2].
  • In search of a calling
  • [pt. 1].
  • Nora Watson, editor
  • Walter Lundquist, industrial designer
  • Rebecca Sweeney, nun to naprapath
  • [pt. 3].
  • Second chance
  • Fred Ringley, ex-salesman; farmer
  • Philip da Vinci, lawyer
  • Sarah Houghton, librarian
  • Mario Anichini, stone cutter
  • [pt. 4].
  • Age of Charlie Blossom
  • Fathers and sons
  • Glen Stribling, service station owner
  • Dave Stribling, his son and partner
  • Steve Dubi, steelworker
  • Father Leonard Dubi, his son, a priest
  • Jack Currier, teacher, adult education
  • Harold Patrick, freight elevator operator
  • Bob Patrick, policeman
  • Tom Patrick, fireman
  • Charlie Blossom, copy boy
  • Steven Simonyi-Gindele, publisher
  • Tom McCoy, proofreader
  • Ralph Werner, department store salesman
  • Bud Freeman, jazz musician
Control code
ocm64774012
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xlix, 589 pages
Isbn
9781565849440
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)64774012

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