are there any books about working / having a bad job?
03-15-07, 03:37 PM
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Bukowski's Post Office and Factotum come to mind. The former is about one bad job and the latter is about a seemingly endless series of bad jobs. Neither are particularly Clerks-like, but they're good reads.
03-15-07, 03:56 PM
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Doubt this is what you had in mind, but Barbara Emmerich's (sp?) non-fiction Nickel and Dimed is an account of her experiences working as a hotel maid, a Wal-Mart clerk and a cleaning woman. Great and VERY revealing read.
And there are a lot of bits about fast food and slaughterhouse employees in Fast Food Nation.
And there are a lot of bits about fast food and slaughterhouse employees in Fast Food Nation.
03-23-07, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by TimeandTide
Doubt this is what you had in mind, but Barbara Emmerich's (sp?) non-fiction Nickel and Dimed is an account of her experiences working as a hotel maid, a Wal-Mart clerk and a cleaning woman. Great and VERY revealing read.
http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-N.../dp/0805063897
03-26-07, 06:11 PM
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The best one (read it a few times) I've read is "Jobjumper" by Thee Whiskey Rebel. Exactly what you're looking for and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
http://www.steelcagerecords.com/catalog/scb001.html
excerpts: http://home.centurytel.net/whskyreb/job.html
http://www.steelcagerecords.com/catalog/scb001.html
excerpts: http://home.centurytel.net/whskyreb/job.html
03-28-07, 11:36 AM
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Studs Terkel Working
It's a couple hundred interviews of people about their jobs. Teacher, hooker, truck driver, everyone.
It's a couple hundred interviews of people about their jobs. Teacher, hooker, truck driver, everyone.
03-28-07, 12:50 PM
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Although a political novel, Upton Sinclair's century old "The Jungle" tells of work in the Chicago meatpacking industry:
The story starts with a family of Lithuanian immigrants moving into the Packingtown district of Chicago, hoping to find a decent place to live and to find jobs to support themselves. They are foiled at these basic requirements: everything costs more than it should, especially since real estate agents and merchants take advantage of their ignorance, and work, when it is available, is brutal and degrading. The book's first half is packed with the gruesome descriptions that have become its legacy, with details of diseased meat shoveled off dirty floors into sausage grinders and sick or injured people preparing meat. In the second half, Jurgis Rudkus, having lost his house and family, strikes out on his own, nearly starving on the streets, unable to find work.
03-31-07, 02:37 AM
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Originally Posted by djmont
You might try Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris, which was just released. I haven't read it yet, but it's getting some good notices.
