Working, Studs Terkel
Working, Studs Terkel
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Working

Author: Studs Terkel, Stephen Schwartz, Nina Faso

Narrator: Harry Groener, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/1998


Synopsis

The first revised and updated version of this 1970’s cult classic. A rousing musical with a cast of twenty, Working is for anyone who has ever punched a clock, a cow or a supervisor - or wanted to.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kaitlin Hopkins, Michael Kostroff, Kenna Ramsey, Vickilyn Reynolds, Vincent Tumeo and B.J. Ward.

About Studs Terkel

Born in 1912, Studs Terkel grew up in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934. He was an actor in radio soap operas, a disk jockey, a radio commentator, and a television emcee, and he traveled all over the world doing on-the-spot interviews. He also hosted a daily radio program on WFMT in Chicago that was syndicated throughout the country. He is the author of American Dreams: Lost and Found; Working; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression; Division Street: America Giants of Jazz; and Talking to Myself. He died on October 31, 2008.


Reviews

Goodreads review by lola on August 16, 2007

like any studs terkel book, you start off like "wow, everyone has a story" and then 400 pages later you're like "jesus, EVERYONE has a story."......more

Goodreads review by Scott on September 12, 2016

Have you ever imagined what being a mustachioed New York cop in the 70s was like? Or how it feels to labour as a Springsteen-esque steelworker? How about as a stonemason? If you’ve ever idly wondered about any of these things, or about sundry other ways that people make a living, you can’t pass Work......more

Goodreads review by Roy on October 22, 2017

They ask me if it’s true that when we bury somebody we dig ‘em out in four, five years and replace ‘em with another one. I tell ‘em no. When these people is buried, he’s buried here for life. —Elmer Ruiz, Gravedigger It is not really accurate to call Terkel the “author” of this book. The real authors......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on December 27, 2008

This book was to some degree a political gesture when it was written--a radical reassessment of which lives are worth documenting and which voices worth being heard--but it would be a shame to read it that way. What this book is is what life feels like during the hours you don't choose for yourself-......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 09, 2023

In the early 1970s, Studs Terkel interviewed over 100 people to ask them about their jobs. Their insights were always interesting, sometimes hilarious, and often amazing. When I put the plate down, you don’t hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, “How com......more