D. W Gibson
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"Inspired by Studs Terkel's Working and by James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, DW Gibson set off on a journey across the United States to interview Americans who have lost their jobs. Here is the mortgage broker who arrived at work to find the door to his office building padlocked, the human resources executive who laid off a couple hundred people before being laid off herself, the husband who was laid off two weeks after his...
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"If you live in a city - and every year, more and more Americans do - you've seen firsthand how gentrification has transformed our surroundings, altering the way cities look, feel, cost, and even smell. Over the last few years, journalists, policymakers, critics, and historians have all tried to explain just what it is that happens when new money and new residents flow into established neighborhoods, yet we've had very little access to the human side...
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In 1974, Studs Terkel published Working, an oral history of how people make a living and how they feel about what they do. In dialogue with Terkel's book, Not Working: The Pulse of the Great Recession travels the country from Orange County, California, to New York City to gather stories of people - hourly wage earners, salaried executives, and employees from every tax bracket in between - who have lost their jobs due to the recent economic downturn....