Blue-collar books: hard to find, but here’s a few

Last updated on: November 19, 2015 at 10:34 am by Mission:Work

Blue-collar books: hard to find, but here’s a few 2015-11-04T10:54:14-05:00 Mission:Work

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One of the things that the faith and work movement could use more writing about is blue-collar work. We ran a series about it on MISSION:WORK a while ago, and the blog Oikonomia on our channel posts about it from time to time (see here and here). We’ve been looking for books to recommend about it. Here’s a couple we’ve run into:

Ironworking.com has a list on women in blue-collar trades.
Mike Rose’s The Mind at Work argues for “the considerable cognitive demands of blue-collar and service work and what it takes to do such work well.”
Here’s a list on Goodreads of everything from poetry to novels to plays to nonfiction, including the grand-daddy of all blue-collar books, Studs Terkel’s Working.
Another classic is Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, which you can read more about here.
Here’s an interview with several folks urging people to find careers in the trades, including one who wrote a job-hunting book called Blue-Collar and Proud of It.
And, probably my personal favorite: Shop Class as Soulcraft.

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