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

• Pubblicazione: Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.8/09220623
• Soggetto topico: Working class writings, American; Working class
• Altri autori: BassoMatthew
• 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Men at work
• ISBN: 1-60781-210-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838295103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II