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GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium
Edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe and Sabin Streeter
Crown, 548 pages, $25
Even telephone psychics have job pressures–they’re not allowed to predict death, and they have to keep the caller on the line. As this book of interviews with 120 modern workers indicates, workplace stress is widespread. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s 1972 classic, “Working,” three years ago the editors of the Webzine Word started the column “Gig,” from which these interviews are taken. Look for the entries from the Wal-Mart greeter and the paparazzo.
