To illiterate Third-World peasants they can't possibly be any worse than Sections on the auto industry are reminiscent of Ben Hamper's RivetheadĪs a healthy reminder of why industry is now willing to entrust these jobs Helped export these boring but high-paying jobs overseas. Of course, today these same people and Terkel himself are likely to beįound dressed up as tree frogs, protesting the globalization which has View of modern employment and his skepticism about the work ethic, areĪutoworkers, fed up with their spiritually unrewarding assembly line jobs. Many of the workers whom Terkel interviews, and who inform his negative This was perhaps the last moment for some time when youĬould complain about a relatively high paying and high skilled job and Of the 1980's and 90's, when the American economy was wrenchingly transformedįrom a mechanical manufacturing basis into an information and service basedĮconomy. Most significantly, it comes just before the dislocations Where inflation was catching up to the bloated Vietnam War/Great SocietyĮconomy.
Of course, coming in 1974, the bookįalls just at the end of the true industrial epoch and just at the point Introductory essay and series of interviews that make up the book, wasĪctually prevalent at that time. Possible that the attitude reflected in the epigraph above, and in the To recall that it was written in the early 1970's. I suppose that it's important, before we begin hammering this book, This book, being about work, is, by its very nature,Ībout violence-to the spirit as well as the body.
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