Ergebnis für "In Arbeit" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Thorsten Kabitz geht in den Knast - und nimmt euch mit. Wie hart ist Knast wirklich? Wie sieht der Alltag in einer Justizvollzugsanstalt für die Menschen hinter und vor der Tür aus? Was macht die Haft mit den Gefangenen? In einer besonderen Reportagereihe geht Radio RSG-Moderator Thorsten Kabitz dieser Frage nach und spricht mit Inhaftierten und Bediensteten. Dabei erhält er intensive und seltene Einblicke hinter die Mauern der JVA Remscheid, wie sie so noch kein Journalist vorher bekommen hat.

Die hier versammelten Texte öffnen die Türen zu den Wohnräumen physisch oder psychisch erkrankter Menschen, die literarisch verfremdet wurden, ihre Vorbilder aber in der Wirklichkeit haben und aus dem Erfahrungsschatz der Autorin hervorgehen. Das Buch ermöglicht auf diesem Wege sehr persönliche Einblicke in eine anspruchsvolle Arbeit, die viel zu oft im Verborgenen bleibt.

In Hoffa’s Shadow tells the moving story of how Goldsmith reunited with the stepfather he’d disowned and then set out to unravel one of the 20th century’s most persistent mysteries and Chuckie’s role in it. Along the way, Goldsmith explores Hoffa’s rise and fall and why the golden age of blue-collar America came to an end, while also casting new light on the century-old surveillance state, the architects of Hoffa’s disappearance, and the heartrending complexities of love and loyalty.

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been preparing for this moment all her life. She smoothed down her frizzy hair, scraped a bit of dirt off the corner of her shoe and strode through. She was quite unprepared for the sight that met her eyes …

G.C. "Red" Jones' classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan", and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.

In the 1960s and '70s, class struggle surged in US industrial cities. Many leftists joined these struggles by going to work in the nation’s factories; among them was Noel Ignatiev. He labored in different factories during this period, and this memoir came from his experiences as an electrician in the blast furnace division of US Steel Gary Works. His firsthand account reveals the day-to-day workings of white supremacy, patriarchy, and the exploitation of labor. More so, though, we see the seeds of a new society sown in the workers’ on-the-job resistance.