Working in America: The Best of Studs Terkel’s Working Tapes Audiobook (Free)

The complete audio documentary as broadcast by NPR, plus exclusive bonus interviews and commentary.

In the first 1970’s, author and radio host Studs Terkel went around the united states having a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result was the bestselling book Working. The great interviewer of his day time, Terkel celebrated the uncelebrated, and Working elevated the stories of normal people and their daily lives.

For over four decades, the Functioning tapes were packed about Working in America: THE VERY BEST of Studs Terkel’s Functioning Tapes away in Terkel’s office at home and remained unheard-until now. Partnering with the Chicago History Museum as well as the Studs Terkel Archives, Project& was presented with exclusive usage of the original recordings and spent a season dealing with Radio Diaries preparing them for the world to hear as part of the nationwide multimedia initiative, Employed in America. The result is a sensational audio documentary that catches the voices of Us citizens from vastly different backgrounds, each reflecting around the rewards, the challenges, as well as the often surprising value of work in their lives. Four decades later, we listen to from some of these same people because they reflect on their primary interviews-and over the startling adjustments within their lives since.

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