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Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. Edited By John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, Sabin St
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Type
- Short Stories
- Illustrator
- Karen Minister
- Vintage
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Year Printed
- 2000
- Binding
- Softcover, Wraps
- Subject
- Home & Garden
- Modified Item
- No
- Original/Facsimile
- Original
- Region
- North America
- Non-Smoking Home
- Yes
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Signed
- No
- Literary Movement
- Realism
- Era
- 2000s
- ISBN
- 0-609-80707-2
- EAN
- 9780609807071
- Book Title
- Gig : Americans Talk about Their Jobs
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Topic
- Careers / General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Research, Labor, Workplace Culture, Business
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 19.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 688 Pages
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"An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers." -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion , Ecstasy Club , and Media Virus This wide-ranging survey of the American economy at the turn of the millennium is stunning, surprising, and always entertaining. It gives us an unflinching view of the fabric of this country from the point of view of the people who keep it all moving. The more than 120 roughly textured monologues that make up Gig beautifully capture the voices of our fast-paced and diverse economy. The selections demonstrate how much our world has changed--and stayed the same--in the three decades prior to the turn of the millennium. If you think things have speeded up, become more complicated and more technological, you're right. But people's attitudes about their jobs, their hopes and goals and disappointments, endure. Gig's soul isn't sociological--it's emotional. The wholehearted diligence that people bring to their work is deeply, inexplicably moving. People speak in these pages of the constant and complex stresses nearly all of them confront on the job, but, nearly universally, they throw themselves without reservation into coping with them. Instead of resisting work, we seem to adapt to it. Some of us love our jobs, some of us don't, but almost all of us are not quite sure what we would do without one. With all the hallmarks of another classic on this subject, Gig is a fabulous read, filled with indelible voices from coast to coast. After hearing them, you'll never again feel quite the same about how we work.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0609807072
ISBN-13
9780609807071
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1808789
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gig : Americans Talk about Their Jobs
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Careers / General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Research, Labor, Workplace Culture, Business
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd4854.G53 2001
Reviews
"Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating." -- USA Today "The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest detail. For all their variety, they weave a cohesive, passion-filled story of what people bring to their work. It's an addictive read." -- Harvard Business Review's Best Business Books of 2000 "Keen, disturbing, and deeply felt . . . the stories in Gig deliver a more rousing political wallop than those in Working . . . remarkable and strangely moving." -- Susan Faludi, The Village Voice "I love this book! It's surprising and entertaining and makes the world seem like a bigger and more interesting place. Gig manages to document everyday life and give pure narrative pleasure at the same time. One feels proud to live in the same country as the people in this book." -- Ira Glass, host of This American Life "A fascinating compilation of what the American workforce has to say about itself." -- George Plimpton "Eye-opening . . . more revealing than any theories a sociologist could concoct." -- The Industry Standard "Entertaining, sobering, validating . . . Ordinary people discuss their jobs with extraordinary candor." -- US Weekly "In the age of advanced spin, this book accomplishes a very rare thing. It actually lets workers speak for themselves. . . . The result makes for a fascinating read." -- Andrew Ross, director, American Studies Program at New York University "Emotional and eye-opening, each compelling description offers insight about the job itself and, more important, an intimate view of a single human life." -- Austin Chronicle "An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers." -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion , Ecstasy Club , and Media Virus
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
00-054509
Intended Audience
Trade
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