"Character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day--and yet we barely think of them"--

A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers.

A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe
 
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...

The phrase a strong work ethic conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in Americas Puritan heritage, perceptions of work ethic have actually undergone multiple transformations over the centuries. And few eras saw a more radical shift in labor ideology than the American industrial age. Daniel T. Rodgers...

“His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist).
 
In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation.
 
Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity,...

A graphic novel adaptation of Studs Terkel's interviews and accounts of the lives of ordinary Americans.

"Winner of the 2003 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002" Nelson Lichtenstein is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the 2012 recipient of the Sol Stetin Award in Labor History and is the author of twelve books, including Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit, Labor's War at Home, and The...

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people. From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley. Now, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor's relation to the global justice movement and the...

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured-until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.

Examines the formidable challenges facing the middle class, calling for fundamental changes while surveying the extent of the problem and identifying the people and agencies most responsible.