San Antonio College Library

"This important book by a major historian is the first to study how the problem of people out of work has been understood and dealt with in the Western world. Garraty discusses the ambivalent attitudes that people have always had toward work and how attitudes and perceptions have changed from ancient times to the present. He deals with what economists and philosophers have written about the problem over the centuries, with what public officials, heads...

In this book, the author gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and their spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally-gendered understandings of work - that it's a requirement for men and optional for women - loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment...

"Twenty-five-year-old Jason Sayer has lost his nerve. An unemployed Vanderbilt graduate who's temporarily taken up residence with his mother and her live-in boyfriend, Jason is adrift in the summery haze of suburban Knoxville. The narrative spans four months in Jason's life shortly after his return from a disillusioning journey to Australia in search of himself."--Page 4 of cover

"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...

At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...

William "Dead" Kennedy has always been able to see dead people with unfinished business, but when a distant cousin asks him to deal with the ghost of a dead girl that is haunting his garage, the request soon takes on a life of its own.

"In a few short hours, Frank's in-control life has spun utterly out of control. Now unexpected changes face him, his father, and the other family members. But as one chapter of life closes for the Reynolds family, they discover that God has already been writing the next."--Page 4 of cover.