Working
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
$45.04
- Paperback
816 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2027
Summary
The National Book Award winner’s classic oral history of Americans’ working lives—and the inspiration for Barack Obama’s new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century
Few books have captured the American experience with such raw, unfiltered power. First published in 1974, Working is Studs Terkel’s landmark work of oral history, a sweeping, intimate portrait of labor in America told entirely through the voices of those who live it.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798893851809 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Studs Terkel, Kim Kelly |
| Publisher: | The New Press |
| Imprint: | The New Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 215mm |
Critics Review
“Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to one another. [Working] helped inform the choices I made in my own work.”
—President Barack Obama
“Magnificent… . To read it is to hear America talking.”
—The Boston Globe
“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
“I cannot find words to express sufficiently my admiration for Studs Terkel’s Working… . Only an interviewer of genius, exploiting the tape recorder as hardly anyone else has done, could possibly have brought it forth.”
—Lewis Mumford
Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel (1912–2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He authored numerous books, including:
- Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
- Division Street: America
- Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century
- Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times
- “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
- The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
- American Dreams: Lost and Found
- The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
- Giants of Jazz
- Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
- And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
- Touch and Go: A Memoir
- P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening
- Studs Terkel’s Chicago
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a Presidential National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a George Polk Career Award, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
[Author name omitted as it seems to be a separate biography] is a labor reporter for In These Times and has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018. She lives in Pine Barrens, New Jersey.
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