"The Way We Work" reveals that a seismic change has occurred in the
workplace since the appearance in 1974 of Studs Terkel's "Working."
Terkel's subjects, despite their alienation, had a sense of
themselves as workers and felt that in the workplace they were part
of a community.The people Terkel interviewed were highly class
conscious in a way that today seems radical and even anachronistic.
By contrast, while some of the narrators in The Way We Work feel
passionate about their work, others are barely conscious that they
are "workers." In transit from one job to another, some workers
find it hard to take either their co-workers or their job situation
too much to heart. One pronoun rarely used by the narrators of the
works in this anthology is "we."
Each of the 43 pieces in "The Way We Work" represents a voice
that is idiosyncratic, ironic, or humorous. Alongside such
acclaimed writers as Tom Wolfe, Rick Bass, Barbara Garson, Ha Jin,
Charles Bowden, Erica Funkhouser, Allan Gurganus, Catherine
Anderson, Philip Levine, Edward Conlon, and Mona Simpson, appear
the narratives of little-known writers. No other collection of
writings about contemporary work in this country showcases the
personal accounts of employees from a creative, literary
perspective.
These writings address such current issues as the effects of
globalization, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and the
weakening of unions, as well as a general sense of worker
disengagement in the workplace. Speaking in multiple genres, the
men and women whose voices are collected here run the whole gamut
of the workplace. From an executive at an office products company
to a migrant fruit picker to a stripper to a doctor to a cleaner of
garbage trucks, "The Way We Work" captures, with passion and
honesty, the experiences of a myriad of workers.
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