Working
By: Studs Terkel.
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 762
ISBN-13: 9780380002597
Subjects: Working class -- United States -- Interviews.; Working class -- United States -- Attitudes.; Work.; Beroepsbevolking.; Arbeidsomstandigheden.
Genres: Interviews.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Preface 1.; title: Who built the pyramids? --; title: Mike LeFevre; title: [Steelworker] --; title: Preface 2.; title: Who spreads the news? --; title: Billy Carpenter; title: [Newsboy] --; title: Cliff Pickens; title: Terry Pickens; title: Preface 3.; title: The mason --; title: Carl Murray Bates; title: [Stonemason] -- -- bk. 1.; title: Working the land --; title: Pierce Walker, farmer --; title: Roberto Acuna, farm worker --; title: Aunt Katherine Haynes, farm woman --; title: Joe and Susie Haynes, deep miner and his wife --; title: Rob Sanders, strip miner --; title: Hub Dillard, heavy equipment operator -- -- bk. 2. -- [pt. 1].; title: Communication --; title: Sharon Atkins, receptionist --; title: Frances Swenson, hotel switchboard operator --; title: Heather Lamb, telephone operator --; title: Jack Hunter, professor of communications -- -- [pt. 2].; title: A pecking order --; title: Terry Mason, airline stewardess --; title: Beryl Simpson, airline reservationist --; title: Jill Torrance, model --; title: Anne Bogan, executive secretary --; title: Roberta Victor, hook -- -- [pt. 3].; title: Did you ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter? --; title: Barbara Herrick, writer/producer -- -- [pt. 4].; title: The commercial --; title: John Fortune, copy chief --; title: Arny Freeman, actor --; title: Rip Torn, actor --; title: Eddie Jaffe, press agent --; title: Richard Mann, installment dealer --; title: Enid du Bois, telephone solicitor --; title: bk. 3. -- [pt. 1].; title: Cleaning up --; title: Nick Salerno, sanitation truck driver --; title: Roy Schmidt, garbage man --; title: Louis Hayward, washroom attendant --; title: Lincoln James, factory mechanic --; title: Maggie Holmes, domestic --; title: Eric Hoellen, janitor -- -- [pt. 2].; title: Watching --; title: Fritz Ritter, doorman --; title: Vincent Maher, policeman --; title: Renault Robinson, policeman --; title: Anthony Ruggiero, industrial investigator --; title: Jill Freedman, photographer --; title: Pauline Kael, film critic -- -- bk. 4.; title: The demon lover -- -- [pt. 1].; title: The making --; title: Phil Stallings, spot-welder --; title: Jim Grayson, spot-welder --; title: Hobart Foote, utility man --; title: Ned Williams, stock chaser --; title: tom Brand, plant manager --; title: Wheeler Stanley, general foreman --; title: Gary Bryner, president, Lordstown Local, UAW -- -- [pt. 2].; title: The driving --; title: Booker Page, cabdriver --; title: Lucky Miller, cabdriver --; title: Will Robinson, bus driver --; title: Frank Decker, interstate trucker -- -- [pt. 3].; title: The parking --; title: Alfred Pommier, car hiker -- -- [pt. 4].; title: The selling --; title: Johnny Bosworth, car salesman -- -- bk. 5. -- [pt. 1].; title: Appearance --; title: Sam Mature, barber --; title: Edward and Hazel Zimmer, hair stylists --; title: Jean Stanley, cosmetics saleswoman --; title: Dr. Stephen Bartlett, dentist --; title: Doc Pritchard, hotel clerk --; title: Hots Michaels, bar pianist --; title: Teddy Grodowski, elevator starter --; title: Tim Devlin, janitor, ex-salesman -- -- [pt. 2].; title: Counting --; title: Nancy Rogers, bank teller --; title: Fred Roman, auditor -- -- [pt. 3].; title: Footwork --; title: Jack Spiegel, organizer --; title: Alice Washington, order filler, shoe factory --; title: John Fuller, mail carrier --; title: Conrad Swibel, gas meter reader --; title: Brett Hauser, supermarket box boy --; title: Babe Secoli, supermarket checker --; title: Thomas Rush, skycap --; title: Grace Clements, felter, luggage factory --; title: Delores Dante, waitress -- -- [pt. 4].; title: Just a housewife -; title: Therese Carter --; title: Jesusita Novarro --; title: bk. 6. -- [pt. 1].; title: The quiet life --; title: Donna Murray, bookbinder --; title: Nino Guidici, pharmacist --; title: Eugene Russell, piano tuner -- -- [pt. 2].; title: Brokers --; title: Margaret Richards, realty broker --; title: James Carson, yacht broker --; title: David Reed Glover, stockbroker --; title: Ray Wax, stockbroker -- -- [pt. 3].; title: Bureaucracy --; title: Steve Carmichael, project coordinator --; title: Lilith Reynolds, government relations coordinator --; title: Diane Wilson, process clerk -- -- [pt. 4].; title: Organizer --; title: Bill Talcott -- -- bk. 7. -- [pt. 1].; title: The sporting life --; title: Eddie Arroyo, jockey --; title: Steve Hamilton, baseball player --; title: Blackie Mason, sports press agent --; title: Jeanne Douglas, tennis player --; title: Eric Nesterenko, hockey player --; title: George Allen, football coach -- -- [pt. 2].; title: In charge --; title: Ward Quaal, TV/radio executive --; title: Dave Bender, factory owner --; title: Ernest Bradshaw, audit department head, bank --; title: Peter Keeley, ex-boss --; title: Lois Keeley Novak, his daughter --; title: Larry Ross, ex-president of conglomerate; consultant -- -- [pt. 3].; title: Ma and Pa courage --; title: George and Irene Brewer -- -- [pt. 4].; title: Reflections on idleness and retirement --; title: Barbara Terwilliger, idleness --; title: Bill Norworth, retired railroad engineer --; title: Joe Zmuda, ex-shipping clerk --; title: bk. 8. -- [pt. 1].; title: The age of Charlie Blossom --; title: Charlie Blossom, copy boy --; title: Steven Simonyi-Gindele, publisher --; title: Tom McCoy, proofreader --; title: Ralph Werner, department store salesman --; title: Bud Freeman, jazz musician --; title: Ken Brown, executive --; title: Kay Stepkin, director of bakery cooperative --; title: Cathleen Moran, hospital aide -- -- [pt. 2].; title: Cradle to grave --; title: Ruth Lindstrom, baby nurse --; title: Rose Hoffman, public school teacher --; title: Pat Zimmerman, alternative school teacher --; title: Kitty Scanlan, occupational therapist --; title: Betsy DeLacy, patients' representative --; title: Carmelita Lester, practical nurse, old people's home --; title: Herbert Bach, memorial counselor --; title: Elmer Ruiz, gravedigger -- -- bk. 9. -- [pt. 1].; title: The quiz kid and the carpenter --; title: Bruce Fletcher, tree nursery attendant --; title: Nick Lindsay, carpenter/poet -- -- [pt. 2].; title: In search of a calling --; title: Nora Watson, editor --; title: Walter Lundquist, industrial designer --; title: Rebecca Sweeney, nun to naprapath -- -- [pt. 3].; title: Second chance --; title: Fred Ringley, ex-salesman; farmer --; title: Philip da Vinci, lawyer --; title: Sarah Houghton, librarian --; title: Mario Anichini, stone cutter -- -- [pt. 4].; title: Fathers and sons --; title: Glen Stribling, service station owner --; title: Dave Stribling, his son and partner --; title: Steve Dubi, steelworker --; title: Father Leonard Dubi, his son, a priest --; title: Jack Currier, teacher, adult education --; title: Harold Patrick, freight elevator operator --; title: Bob Patrick, policeman --; title: Tom Patrick, fireman.