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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956456003321

Titolo

Men at work : rediscovering Depression-era stories from the Federal Writers' Project / / edited and introduced by Matthew L. Basso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2012

ISBN

1-60781-210-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BassoMatthew

Disciplina

810.8/09220623

Soggetti

Working class writings, American

Working class

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""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 Boat""; ""Shingletown""; ""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""

Sommario/riassunto

As part of Roosevelt's New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans.One facet of the WPA was the hiring of men and women to



document the history and folklore of America so as to capture the "soul" of the nation.