Men at work : 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""
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Men at work
• ISBN: 1-60781-210-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956456003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II