{"product_id":"gig-john-bowe-9780609807071","title":"Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of \u003ci\u003eCoercion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcstasy Club\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMedia Virus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis wide-ranging survey of the American economy at the turn of the millennium is stunning, surprising, and always entertaining. It gives us an unflinching view of the fabric of this country from the point of view of the people who keep it all moving. The more than 120 roughly textured monologues that make up \u003ci\u003eGig\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully capture the voices of our fast-paced and diverse economy. The selections demonstrate how much our world has changed--and stayed the same--in the three decades prior to the turn of the millennium. If you think things have speeded up, become more complicated and more technological, you're right. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut people's attitudes about their jobs, their hopes and goals and disappointments, endure. \u003ci\u003eGig's\u003c\/i\u003e soul isn't sociological--it's emotional. The wholehearted diligence that people bring to their work is deeply, inexplicably moving. People speak in these pages of the constant and complex stresses nearly all of them confront on the job, but, nearly universally, they throw themselves without reservation into coping with them. Instead of resisting work, we seem to adapt to it. Some of us love our jobs, some of us don't, but almost all of us are not quite sure what we would do without one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith all the hallmarks of another classic on this subject, \u003ci\u003eGig\u003c\/i\u003e is a fabulous read, filled with indelible voices from coast to coast. After hearing them, you'll never again feel quite the same about how we work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Bowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0609807072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780609807071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.21w x 1.46d","brand":"John Bowe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994872152319,"sku":"9780609807071","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d07a541e-83a7-4296-8e35-ae4cfa54ebb2.jpg?v=1683332665","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gig-john-bowe-9780609807071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}