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Working
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 to describe working life in their own voices. The book is intended for readers interested in labor,...
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Black Boy
Richard Wright's Black Boy, first published in 1945, recounts his childhood and young adulthood in the Jim Crow-era American South. Beginning with his early years in Mississippi, the narrative follows family upheaval and moves that eventually lead through Memphis toward Chicago. Racism and poverty shape daily life, while violence makes both family relationships and encounters with the wider world...
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