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  • Cover; Working in America; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Robert Frost, "Two Tramps in Mud Time" ; Introduction: Work and the Humanities ; Frithjof Bergmann, "The Future of Work" ; SECTION ONE-Voices from the Workplace: Our Complex Relations to Work ; Ecclesiastes 1:2-5, 2 and 3.
  • A. The Yin and Yang of Work: Our Ambivalent Feelings about Work 1. Work as a Curse ; Genesis 3:14-24 ; "The Woman's Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck" ; Interview with Mike Lefevre, Steelworker, from Working by Studs Terkel ; 2. Finding Our Identities through Work ; Matthew 25:14-30.
  • Interview with Dolores Dante, Waitress, from Working by Studs Terkel Paul Zimmer, "Work" ; 3. An Alternative American View of Work ; "The Arkansas Traveler" ; Mark Twain, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ; B. Materialism and Spiritual Values.
  • A Worker's Voice: A San Francisco Dockworker 1. Finding Meaning in the Material World ; Benjamin Franklin, "Advice to a Young Tradesman" ; James Tate, "The Professor Waking" ; 2. Worlds to Choose From ; William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much with Us."
  • Valdimir Timofeevich Kirillov, "The Iron Messiah" 3. Finding Meaning in Spiritual Living ; Henry David Thoreau, from Walden ; C. Humans as Commodities: Conformity and Rebellion ; A Worker's Voice: Scottish Coal-Mining Girl ; 1. Conformity ; W.H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen."