Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2010
- Hardcover
- New
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- Title
- Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
- Author
- Reavis, Dick J
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1439154791
- ISBN 13
- 9781439154793
- Item weight
- 20 ounces
- Dimensions
- 9x6x1
Written with the flair of a gifted portraitist and storyteller, the book describes his days on jobs at a factory, as a construction and demolition worker, landscaper, road crew flagman, auto-auction driver and warehouseman, and several days spent sorting artifacts in a dead packrats apartment. On one pick-and-shovel job, Reavis finds that his partner is too blind to see the hole theyre digging. In each setting, he describes the personalities and problems of his desperate peers, the attitudes of their bosses, and the straits of immigrant co-workers..
This is a gritty, hard-times evocation of the sometimes colorful men and women on the bottom rung of the workforce. It is partly a guide to performing hard, physical tasks, partly a celebration of strength, and partly a venting of ire at stingy and stern overseers. Reavis wants to make the point that physical exertion, even when ugly, painful or unpleasant, remains vital to the economyand that those who labor, though poorly paid, bring vigor, skill and cunning to their tasks. .
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Review
"An unsentimental yet humane glimpse of life from under the American economy's floorboards. Immersing himself in the hitherto unexplored world of day laborers, Reavis reminds us of an unglamorous truth -- namely, that our nation's prosperity depends not just on captains of industry but also on the exertions of all-American roustabouts with monikers like Flat Top and Tyke and Real Deal." -- Robert Draper, author of "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush"
"Dick Reavis crosses the class divide in modern America to join and bear witness to the day laborers who toil along society's margins. "Catching Out" reminds us of the dignity of manual work, and it also stirs our conscience about how frequently the men and women who do that work are exploited. In his appealingly modest way, Reavis carries on the tradition of John Steinbeck." -- Samuel Freedman, author of "The Inheritance"
"Dick Reavis reveals what he learned working among millions of day laborers on the bottom rung of our workforce. With this trenchant report he does what Barbara Ehrenreich did for women in "Nickel and Dimed"." -- Mario M. Cuomo
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