Working
Working won the Pulitzer Prize and was 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.
- Publisher
- The New Press
- ISBN-13
- 9781595587664
- Genre
- Topics
- Work and occupationsOral historyAmerican labor
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1975)
Other awarded books from Studs Terkel
- "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (2011)1 win · 12 score
- American Dreams: Lost and Found (1980)0 wins · 4 score
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