![]() ![]() ![]() A female advertising executive was regularly mistaken as the secretary. A black Chicago police officer talked about the racism he saw every day. ![]() A steelworker wished that skilled laborers would be publicly recognized for their work. (Listen in on twelve of the stories on the Radio Diary website.) The edited interviews include a telephone operator, an auto repair mechanic, a steel worker, a gravedigger, a private investigator, and a police officer. Last year Radio Diaries and Project& collaborated to bring some of these stories to the air, tracking down still-living interviewees for updates, editing and presenting the best of the stories then and now. And it became a bestseller.Īudio tapes Terkel recorded in preparation for the book, interviews he conducted all over the country, sat in boxes in his house where they were discovered when he died in 2008. Or rather, it brought the unique challenges and glories of the lives and reflections of these workers into the light. It was called Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do. The book honored the ordinary. Terkel published his iconic book in 1974. That’s one reason why Studs Terkel’s 40+ year-old interviews with American workers still resonate today. For all of the national conversations about a universal income, unemployment rates, the threat of automation, politicians’ promises for more jobs, etc., the daily experiences of individuals and their jobs can get lost. ![]()
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