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Working; people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do Cover Image Book Book

Working people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do

Summary: A collection of interviews with working people in a wide variety of occupations.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0394478843
  • ISBN: 9780394478845
  • Physical Description: print
    xlix, 589 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: [1st ed.].
  • Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books [1974]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: 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 ; Bob Sanders, strip miner ; Hub Dillard, heavy equipment operator -- 2. Communications : Sharon Atkins, receptionist ; Frances Swenson, hotel switchboard operator ; Heather Lamb, telephone operator ; Jack Hunter, professor of communications -- A pecking order : Terry Mason, airline stewardess ; Beryl Simpson, airline reservationist ; Jill Torrance, model ; Anne Bogan, executive secretary ; Roberta Victor, hooker -- Did you ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter? : Barbara Herrick, writer/producer -- The commercial : John Fortune, copy chief ; Arny Freeman, actor ; Rip Torn, actor ; Eddie Jaffe, press agent ; Richard Mann, installment dealer ; Enid du Bois, telephone solicitor -- 3. Cleaning up : Nick Salerno, sanitation truck driver ; Roy Schmidt, garbage man ; Louis Hayward, washroom attendant ; Lincoln James, factory mechanic ; Maggie Holmes, domestic ; Eric Hoellen, janitor -- Watching : Fritz Ritter, doorman ; Vincent Maher, policeman ; Renault Robinson, policeman ; Anthony Ruggiero, industrial investigator ; Jill Freedman, photographer ; Pauline Kael, film critic -- 4. The demon lover : The 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 -- The driving : Booker Page, cabdriver ; Lucky Miller, cabdriver ; Will Robinson, bus driver ; Frank Decker, interstate truckdriver -- The parking : Alfred Pommier, car hiker -- The selling : Johnny Bosworth, car salesman -- 5. Appearance : Sam Mature, barber ; Edward and Hazel Zimmer, hair stylists ; Jean Stanley, cosmetics saleswoman ; Dr. Stephen Bartlett, dentist ; Doc Pritchard, hotel clerk ; Hots Michaels, bar pianist ; Teddy Grodowski, elevator starter ; Tim Devlin, janitor; ex-salesman -- Counting : Nancy Rogers, bank teller ; Fred Roman, auditor -- Footwork : Jack Spiegel, organizer ; 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 ; Dolores Dante, waitress -- Just a housewife : Therese Carter ; Jesusita Novarro.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.
Subject: Working class United States Interviews
Working class United States Attitudes
Work
Employment
Work

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library HD 8072 .T47 1974 279373 Stacks Available -

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