In the canon
Working
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1974
- Pages
- Pages 600
Somebody built the Empire State Building, and the Chicago steelworker who opens this book wants their names on it: a foot-wide strip running top to bottom, every bricklayer, every electrician, every hand that touched it. Studs Terkel carried a tape recorder around America and asked receptionists, gravediggers, jockeys, spot-welders and hotel switchboard operators what they did all day and how they felt about doing it.
This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence—to the spirit as well as to the body.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.