[Marxism] Graphic adaptation of Studs Terkel's "Working"

[Louis Proyect]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-terkel1-2009may01,0,7643798.story
 From the Los Angeles Times
Opinion
Studs Terkel's 'Working' reimagined
A new book takes the famous book and puts it in graphic form.

May 1, 2009

Studs Terkel's oral history book, "Working," came out more than 35 years 
ago. In Terkel's introduction, he explained that the book, "being about 
work, is, by its very nature, about violence -- to the spirit as well as 
to the body. ... It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as 
daily bread, for recognition as well as cash. ... To be remembered was 
the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of the book. 
... I was constantly astonished by the extraordinary dreams of ordinary 
people. ... Perhaps it is time the 'work ethic' was redefined and its 
ideas reclaimed from the banal men who invoke it."

During today's difficult economic times, Terkel's words and those of his 
"workers" still resonate.

Harvey Pekar has adapted and Paul Buhle edited text from that work for 
"Studs Terkel's Working: a Graphic Adaptation." Buhle writes in the 
introduction to the new book: "Terkel's interviewing has found a 
counterpart, for the last thirty years or so, in the comics scripted by 
Harvey Pekar. The two are joined here, adapted by a dozen talented 
artists, in ... a fresh approach to the lives and labor of ordinary 
Americans."

The illustrations here by Peter Kuper are based on Terkel's interview 
with Bill Talcott, an organizer who, as he put it, "came into 
consciousness during the '50s" and worked with black communities in San 
Francisco and mine workers in Appalachia, among others.

An excerpt from "Working": 
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-terkel-image,0,7747555.htmlpage