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Working is a 1974 oral history by American writer and broadcaster Studs Terkel, assembled from interviews with people in a wide range of occupations. Its speakers discuss the routines, pressures, satisfactions, status, and personal meaning attached to their work, allowing laborers and professionals...
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Landmark oral history, widely acclaimed for democratic scope and lasting influence, though not a conventional autobiography.
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Division Street: America is a 1967 oral-history book by American broadcaster and writer Studs Terkel. Built from interviews with roughly seventy people, many connected to Chicago, it records individual accounts of work, race, class, family, politics, and social change in the United States. Terkel pr...
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Important early Terkel oral history, praised for social range and voice, though less canonical than Working.
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