Working book studs terkel6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() “I think that’s what really affected me, thinking maybe you’re looking too much at the numbers and the metrics and the Excel spreadsheet and forgetting the fact that that little number you see on column A, row seven is an actual person with a wife, with a kid, with a car payment, with a mortgage, and is actually from your country, from your neighborhood, and is a viable person in the community." -Erik Hill, salesman, Tacoma, Washington Tweet "The book gives a name and a face to what is often tossed around as a mere An intense, moving, ground-level history of our difficult times." -Teju Cole, author, Open City Through the book's many voices, we get a detailed and harrowing, but utterly unsentimental,sense of the lives of others. "With grace and compassion, DW Gibson's Not Working brings us the stories of America’s disregarded. "This is a powerful and heart-wrenching story that is unfortunately replicated far too many times by far too many people." -Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker From the East Coast through the middle of our country, and on out West, Gibson, armed with a recorder, van, and tremendous pathos, recorded people whose stories contain both tragedy and humor, a stubborn will to survive despite their desperate circumstances." - Interview Magazine ![]() "Inspired by the great oral historian Studs Terkel's Working, Gibson's tome is a touching and all-too-necessary text for 2012. Not Working People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s ![]()
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