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The Secret Life of Groceries
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket © 2020 Benjamin Lorr336 pages The Secret Life of Groceries opens at a fish counter and invites the reader to consider how much labor, creativity, money, pain, and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged business, food and drink, journalism, on the job, transportation
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Within Arm’s Reach
Within Arm’s Length: The Extraordinary Life and Career of a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service© 2014, 2018 Dan Emmett320 pages Dan Emmett was a kid when he witnessed President Kennedy’s assassination on television, but instead of being … Continue reading
The Job
The Job: True Tales from a New York City Cop © 2015 Steve Osborn 272 pages Steve Osborn grew up by his father’s side in a bar, standing on boxes to play pinball and idolizing the men his father hung … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged cops and enforcement, fathers and sons, NYC, on the job, security
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Mean Streets
Mean Streets: Confessions of a Nightime Taxi Driver© 2002 Peter McSherry256 pages Mean Streets takes readers into the dark side of Canada, or at least the dark side of Toronto. Ever since the 1970s, Peter McSherry has been driving the night … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 1970s, crime, goods/services, memoir, on the job, transportation
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Danger Heavy Goods
Danger Heavy Goods: Driving the Toughest, Most Dangerous Roads in the WorldAlso known as: Juggernaut: Trucking to Saudi Arabia© 1988 Robert Hutchinson288 pages “Makes Smokey and the Bandit Look Like Smokey and the Boy Scouts” When is a lorry not … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Britain, Eastern Europe, memoir, Middle East, on the job, trade, transportation, Turkey
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Truck This For A Living
Truck This for a Living: Tales of a UK Lorry Driver© 2014 Gary Mottram226 pages After hand-manufacturing woodwind instruments for thirteen years, Gary Mottram was laid off. So naturally, he took up driving. Working through a temp agency, he delivered … Continue reading
Taxi!
Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver© 2007 Graham Russell Gao Hodges225 pages No film set in New York City is complete without scenes of Manhattan traffic, dense with yellow cars — the patrolling ranks of the … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged goods/services, history, labor, NYC, on the job, social history, transportation
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Picking Up
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City© 2014 Robin Nagle304 pages When young Robin Nagle stumbled upon a communal dumpsite in the middle of an otherwise picturesque meadow, she was … Continue reading