03203nam 2200577Ia 450 991095645600332120251117092333.01-60781-210-X(CKB)2670000000273983(EBL)3443863(SSID)ssj0000721212(PQKBManifestationID)12328542(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721212(PQKBWorkID)10687927(PQKB)11560683(MiAaPQ)EBC3443863(OCoLC)813285845(MdBmJHUP)muse48834(Au-PeEL)EBL3443863(CaPaEBR)ebr10608556(OCoLC)932314632(EXLCZ)99267000000027398320120418d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMen at work rediscovering Depression-era stories from the Federal Writers' Project /edited and introduced by Matthew L. Basso1st ed.Salt Lake City University of Utah Pressc20121 online resource (367 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60781-189-8 ""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""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.Working class writings, AmericanWorking classLiterary collectionsWorking class writings, American.Working class810.8/09220623Basso Matthew1857477MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956456003321Men at work4458328UNINA