“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday-to-Friday sort of dying.”
Studs Terkel (1912 – 2008)
American writer, journalist, broadcaster
Pulitzer Prize winner
Susan Stamberg’s story on NPR about Studs Terkel’s bestselling book, Working – an oral history of “people talking about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do”.
Outside the money hours, enjoy 9 minutes of audio from NPR – the story around the book and actual recordings from a few of Terkel’s inteviews for the book. Particularly heartwarming (seriously… if you don’t get a little teary-eyed with Therese, check your pulse): Delores the waitress Loving Her People (at 1:50 to 3:00), Terry the newspaper boy on collections and his spending problem (at 3:30 to 4:45) and Therese on being “just a housewife” (at 6:45 to 8:10).
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