Jimmy Santiago Baca (editor) The Heat: Steelworker Lives & Legends, a collection of worker writing Nonfiction
Dean Bakopoulos Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, 2005
Christopher Barzak Youngstown, OH cmbarzak@ysu.edu
One for Sorrow, 2007
William O. Boggs Slippery Rock, PA wboggs@copper.net
The Man Who Never Comes Back
Swimming in Clear Water
Eddie Johnson’s American Dream
Carlos Bolusan America is in the Heart, 1943
Kate Braid, Carpenter/Teacher/Writer Covering Rough Ground Poetry braidk@telus.net
Ernie Brill I Looked Over Jordan, and other Stories 1980 South End Press ebrill@hotmail.com Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain Break Time Poetry Jim Daniels Punching Out; Digger’s Blues Letters to America Show and Tell Detroit Tales Poetry; Short Story Pittsburgh, PA jd6s@andrew.cmu.edu
Kathleen DeGrave Company Woman 1995 , Charles Denby Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal, 1989 Memoir Sue Doro California Sugar String Blue-Collar Goodbyes Poetry; Memori California tradesis@aol.com Jessica Dulong Brooklyn My River Chronicles Memoir jessica@jessicadulong.com
Susan Eisenberg
We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction, 1999, ; Oral History; Interviews with women in the trades. “Eye-opening and often disturbing, this is a fine study on the limits of affirmative action that can be appreciated by lay readers and scholars alike.” (LJ) susaneisenberg@verizon.net
Susan Eisenberg Pioneering: Poems From the Construction Site; It's a Good Thing I'm Not Macho, Poetry “In this slim book we find, among other startling images, an electrocuted rat, an ominous male working partner with a knife, a falling body about to strike marble steps and a woman's hand cut off by a saw.” NYTimes Suzanne Gordon When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing up For Themselves, Their Patients and Their Profession Oral History Arlington, Ma. www.suzannegordon.com
Archie Green, ed. Calf’s Head and Union Tale 1996 Lola Hernandez Detroit Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant" Memoir lolahern@comcast.net Paul Krehbiel Shades of Justice Memoir Recalls his anti-war organizing and other adventures. Southern California Jane LaTour Sisters In The Brotherhood: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City Oral History "Injects the suspense of a thriller into a portrait of women breaking into blue-collar jobs . . . LaTour shatters tradeswomen's invisibility by providing in-depth portraits of the vast range of women who challenged exclusionary practices." --Working USA New York City JLatour@dc37.net
Molly Martin (editor) Hard-Hatted Women Poetry molly@tradeswomen.org . Sandra Martz (editor) If I Had A Hammer, Women’s Work oral history Ken Meisel, Detroit Beautiful Rust poetry Adam David Miller Ticket To Exile; The Sky is the Page Heyday Bks, 2007 14.95 Memoir Poetry, Memoir “Complete in its portrait of a struggling Southern family and undeniably powerful in its portrayal of racial injustice, Miller captures a time and a place with resonance, honesty and wisdom.” (PW) adam@adamdavidmillerpoet.com Francine Moccio
Live Wire moccio01@aol.com Eugene Nelson Break Their Haughty Power Creative nonfiction 1992 It's a fictionalized biography of Joe Murphy and the IWW, beginning when Murphy runs away from home in Springfield Missouri at age 13 to join the IWW as a harvest hand in Kansas. Ism Press 1992 Linda Niemann,
Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (Railroads Past and Present) Literary & Photo History Niemann's tales of exhaustion, alcoholism, homelessness, and corporate blundering present a revelatory account of railroading life. Photographer Joel Jensen realizes Niemann's vision of the working West with images of cowboy bars, blue motels, and railroaders working in electrical storms, white-outs, and desert heat waves....an honest, gritty, and striking collaboration. Marietta, GA lniemann@kennesaw.edu
Mark Nowak Shut Up, Shut Down; Coal Mountain Elementary poetry
Helen Petrobenko Hey Waitress and other Stories, 1989 Letters to Maggie 1998 Vancouver, BC
Cheri Register Packinghouse Daughter
Marianne Robinson Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire,
Susan Rosenthal susanrosenthal.com Sick and Sicker: Essays on Class, Health and Health Care Nonfiction Powerful examiation of the limits imposed on health care by the for-profit sstem Canada
Timothy Sheard This Won’t Hurt A Bit; Some Cuts Never Heal, A Race Against Death, Slim To None Mysteries “His intimate view of Lenny's world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a workingman's perspective. “ 'NYTIMES. Brooklyn, NY timsheard@optonline.net
David Shevin, Larry Smith (editors) Getting By, Stories of Working Lives; A Red Shadow of Steel Mills: Photos and Poems Oral history; poems & photos "This collection (Getting BY) takes an unfiltered look at what most American citizens are: working people...."b Marietta TIMES
Barbara Sjoholm (editor) Steady As she Goes, Women’s Adventures at Sea oral history Running through all of the selections are threads of quiet courage, an often stunning originality, self- confidence, presence of mind, and a degree of vitality that should appeal strongly to teenage readers. Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Larry Smith Milldust and Roses Poetry/History “It is Smith’s simple directness, human scale, and respect for reality that makes Milldust and Roses such a sweet, kind, modest, touching, and unassuming book...” David Budbill . Larry Smith Beyond Rust Novella, Short Stories, essays Good, strong language, and a big heart shining through." Sy Safransky
Candacy Taylor Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress Oral History “...this unique perspective is much like the professional diner waitress-difficult to pigeonhole, impossible to ignore.” Publishers Weekly California
Ross Thomas The Porkchoppers Fiction Two bitter union bosses conduct a nationwide duel over billions of dollars in an expose of political maneuvering...characters include adulterers, lackeys, and special interest groups.
Mary Heaton Vorse Tom Wayman (editor) Going For Coffee poetry anthology Harbour Publishing
Mary Weems , Larry Smith (editors) Working Hard For the Money anthology
Betty Wilson Mr. Jefferson’s Piano and Other Harlem Stories) creative nonfiction wilsonbluez@aol.com
Michael Zadoorian The Los Tiki Palaces of Detroit, 2009
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