Men at work : rediscovering Depression-era stories from the Federal Writers' Project /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Original Preface; Section I: Times Have Changed; Drift Miner; Logging in the Rain; Save the Peavies; The Fish are Running; Wild Bill; The Boomer Fireman's Fast Sooner Hound; Mules Ain't Jackasses; The Driller; "Snake" Magee and the Rotary Boiler; Sade Duggett; Discontinued Model; The Type Louse; Section II: Time Stands Still; Basílico Garduño, New Mexican Sheepherder; A Tabaquero Talks; Navaho Trader; An Organ Builder's Soliloquy; Section III: Modern Times; Part One: The Producers; Anaconda; Cannery Row; The Fruit Packers; Still Operator.
- Pogy BoatShingletown; Mine Timekeeper; Greedy-Gut Gus, The Car Toad; San Francisco Longshore Gang; Part Two: Selling the Public; Tobacco Auctioneer; Pay Dirt; Slappy Hooper, World's Biggest, Fastest, and Bestest Sign Painter; Part Three: The Artists; Jazz Music: Chicago Style; Everything's Dangerous; Soup Circuit; Sven, The Hundred Proof Irishman; Part Four: For the Future; Salmon for the Columbia; The Ship yards Get A Welder; Illustrations; Contributors' Biographies.
