Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
How to Tell When You're Tired: A Brief Examination of Work (Revised)

How to Tell When You're Tired: A Brief Examination of Work (Revised)

Theriault, Reg

Paperback

Series: Norton Paperbacks

Business GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0393315576
ISBN13: 9780393315578
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jan 1 1997
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.06 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

There have been untold volumes published on the nature and necessity of work, but almost none of them written by the experts: the workers themselves. Until this book. Reg Theriault, for over thirty years a longshoreman on the San Francisco waterfront, finally gives voice to the thoughts and conditions of the laboring classes from the privileged point of view of a man well used to tough manual labor. With a humorous sense of balance--and a refreshing absence of working-class cant--he examines the real world of the workplace: the constant struggle for respect and autonomy, the perennial tendency of management to treat workers as merely one part of the production process, the parallel habit of unions to bargain away precisely the wrong things, the nature of bosses, the sheer grinding tedium and danger of moving heavy objects, and the sense of accomplishment gained from doing a piece of work right.

Also in

General Sociology

View All