Literature and Work
ISBN: 9780205681099 | 0205681093
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 11/14/2010
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Literature and Work is part of Longman's the Essential Literature Series. This anthology introduces students to work by having them read, discuss, and write about work-related topics, which are often connected to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and class. The book features contemporary as well as classic literature with a global perspective. The literature is arranged under eight primary themes: "Work: Definitions and Ideals," "Entering the Work Force," "Hard Work and Hard Times: The Working Poor," "The Immigrant Experience," "Class Struggle... MORE
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Work: Definitions and Ideals | p. 3 |
| From The Autobiography, Chapter 8 [on moral perfection] | p. 5 |
| The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758 | p. 11 |
| From Life without Principle | p. 19 |
| The Tuft of Flowers | p. 23 |
| A Clean Well-Lighted Place | p. 26 |
| What Work Is | p. 31 |
| Entering the Workforce | p. 33 |
| A... MORE | p. 35 |
| Goodfellows | p. 41 |
| Orientation | p. 54 |
| Hard Work and Hard Times: The Working Poor | p. 61 |
| Under the Lion's Paw | p. 63 |
| Chicago | p. 75 |
| Washerwoman | p. 77 |
| Harlem Dancer | p. 78 |
| From Working, Delores Dante, Waitress | p. 80 |
| Those Winter Sundays | p. 86 |
| Waiting Table | p. 88 |
| Digger Laid Off | p. 90 |
| Factory Time | p. 92 |
| From Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | p. 96 |
| I Hate My Job | p. 115 |
| The Immigrant Experience | p. 119 |
| From The Jungle | p. 121 |
| Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) | p. 129 |
| Cakes | p. 131 |
| Marian | p. 135 |
| So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans | p. 146 |
| Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits | p. 149 |
| El Olor de Cansansio (The Smell of Fatigue) | p. 151 |
| Class Struggle and the Dynamics of Power | p. 155 |
| The Chimney Sweeper (versions from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience) | p. 157 |
| John Henry | p. 160 |
| Counterparts | p. 163 |
| 'Butch' Weldy | p. 172 |
| The Hairy Ape | p. 174 |
| From Working, Who Built the Pyramids?: Mike LeFevre | p. 210 |
| Race, Gender, and the Dynamics of Power | p. 219 |
| On Colored Women and Work | p. 221 |
| From Black Boy, Five Dollar Fight | p. 224 |
| The Five-Forty-Eight | p. 232 |
| Marks | p. 244 |
| Song of the Fisher Wife | p. 246 |
| Work and Ethics | p. 249 |
| The Prodigal Son | p. 251 |
| Written in London, September 1802 | p. 253 |
| Bartleby, the Scrivener | p. 255 |
| Editor Whedon | p. 283 |
| The Use of Force | p. 285 |
| Highway Patrolman | p. 289 |
| The New Yorker Fiction | p. 292 |
| Work: Fulfillment and Disillusionment | p. 305 |
| The Solitary Reaper | p. 307 |
| I Hear America Singing | p. 309 |
| In a Station of the Metro | p. 311 |
| Digging | p. 312 |
| Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | p. 314 |
| Ex-Basketball Player | p. 316 |
| Hay for the Horses | p. 318 |
| Assembly Line | p. 320 |
| Dr. Shy | p. 322 |
| Working in a Public Elementary School | p. 330 |
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