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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 “ Definitions and Ideals,” “Entering the Work Force,” “Hard Work and Hard The Working Poor,” “The Immigrant Experience,” “Class Struggle and the Dynamics of Power,” “Race, Gender, and the Dynamics of Power,” “Work and Ethics,” and “ Fulfillment and Disillusionment.”
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Table of Contents
Literature and Work
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Work: Definitions and Ideals
from Autobiography (moral perfection, virtues, chart, “when men are employ'd, they are
best content'd”); “Way to Wealth” — Ben Franklin
from “Life without Principle” — Henry David Thoreau
“The Tuft of Flowers” — Robert Frost
“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” — Ernest Hemingway
“What Work Is” — Philip Levine
II. Entering the Work Force
“A & P” — John Updike
“Goodfellows” — Antonya Nelson
“Orientation” — Daniel Orozco
III. Hard Work and Hard Times: The Working Poor
“Under the Lion’s Paw” Hamlin Garland”
“Chicago” — Carl Sandburg
“Washerwoman” — Carl Sandburg
“Harlem Dancer” — Claude McKay
from Working, “Waitress” — Studs Terkel
“Those Winter Sundays” — Robert Hayden
“I Stand Here Ironing” — Tillie Olsen
“Waiting Table” — Karl Rompf
“Digger Laid Off” — Jim Daniels
“Tom Wayman” — “Factory Time”
from Nickel-and-Dimed — Barbara Ehrenreich
“I Hate My Job” — Cam’Ron
IV. The Immigrant Experience
from The Jungle — Upton Sinclair
“Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” — Woody Guthrie
“Cakes” — Salvatore La Puma
“Mariah” — Jamaica Kincaid
“So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans” — Jimmy Santiago Baca
“Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” — Martín Espada
“El Olor de Cansansio (The Smell of Fatigue)” — Melida Rodas
V. Class Struggle and the Dynamics of Power
“Chimney Sweeper” (versions from Innocence and Experience)
“John Henry”
“Counterparts” — James Joyce
“‘Butch’ Weldy” — Edgar Lee Masters
The Hairy Ape — Eugene O’Neill
from Working (Steelworker, Mike Lefevre) — Studs Terkel
VI. Race, Gender, and the Dynamics of Power
“Colored Women and Work” — Sojourner Truth
“Five Dollar Fight” (from Black Boy) — Richard Wright
“The Five-Forty Eight” — John Cheever
“Marks” — Linda Pastan
“Song of the Fisher Wife” — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
VII. Work and Ethics
“Prodigal Son” — Luke
“Written in London, September 1802”
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” — Herman Melville
“Editor Whedon” — Edgar Lee Masters
“The Use of Force” — William Carlos Williams
“Highway Patrolman” — Bruce Springsteen
“The Lie” — T. C. Boyle
VIII. Work: Fulfillment and Disillusionment
“The Solitary Reaper” — William Wordsworth
“I Hear America Singing” — Walt Whitman
“In a Station of the Metro” — Ezra Pound
“Fish Crier” — Carl Sandburg
“Digging” — Seamus Heaney
“Autumn in Martins Ferry,” — James Wright
“Ex-Basketball Player” — John Updike
“Hay for the Horses” — Gary Snyder
“Assembly Line” — Shu-Ting
“Dr. Shy” — Stephen Paul Miller
“Working in a Public Elementary School” — Adriane Giebel
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