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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK FIVE – Part 2 – Counting)
The most “exciting” shot I could find. We’ll be going a little short today with only two entries to cover but them’s the breaks of this chapter. Counting isn’t a particularly in depth look at the world...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK FIVE – Part 3 – Footwork)
Had to make the joke. There’s a lot of variety in this section of book five. There so much in fact that I’ve had to split it up into two different sections. It certainly helps that some of the...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK FIVE – Part 3 – Footwork, Concluded)
Taken from here. For a few reasons or more this section of part 3 is going to be a little challenging for me. The main problem being that the first two people I’m going to highlight from Terkel’s...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK FIVE – Part 4 – Just a Housewife)
I would say this part of book five is going to help me stretch my “feminist legs” but that sounds weird. Therese Carter (Housewife) Right off the bat I just want it to be clear that this article is...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK SIX – Part 1 – The Quiet Life)
I’m not quite sure about the title for this section, “The Quiet Life”. If you ask me the only possible life that could be quiet is our first prospective interviewee, the book binder. But as for the...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK SIX – Part 2 – Brokers)
Some people are invariably in over their heads Unsurprisingly to some (including myself) the so-called “makers and takers” within society are not a uniform people who are hellbent on exploiting other...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK SIX – Part 3 – Bureaucracy)
Probably not completely accurate but not entirely false either… In starting this (short) section I wondered how Terks would handle a section on bureaucracy. Would he get all perspectives of those...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK SIX – Part 4 – Organizers)
Not picture (presumably): Bill Talcott’s fist To celebrate my return to the site, I’m just making a quick post about the last section of this chapter. I’ll be back on Tuesday for an original post on my...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK SEVEN – Part 1 – The Sporting Life)
Courtesy of Morehead State University I could never claim to love sports. I’ve always been bad at them except for dodgeball which is a sport I relish in of itself and how I viciously mocking others for...
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WORKING, by Studs Terkel (BOOK SEVEN – Part 2 – In Charge)
You could do worse? When I was in school I was told that I had an issue with authority. I was disruptive in classes, would constantly daydream or drift off from my studies and I reacted poorly to...
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