![]() ![]() "The book gives a name and a face to what is often tossed around as a mere An intense, moving, ground-level history of our difficult times." -Teju Cole, author, Open City Through the book's many voices, we get a detailed and harrowing, but utterly unsentimental,sense of the lives of others. "With grace and compassion, DW Gibson's Not Working brings us the stories of America’s disregarded. "This is a powerful and heart-wrenching story that is unfortunately replicated far too many times by far too many people." -Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker From the East Coast through the middle of our country, and on out West, Gibson, armed with a recorder, van, and tremendous pathos, recorded people whose stories contain both tragedy and humor, a stubborn will to survive despite their desperate circumstances." - Interview Magazine "Inspired by the great oral historian Studs Terkel's Working, Gibson's tome is a touching and all-too-necessary text for 2012. Not Working People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s ![]()
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