Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival

✍ Scribed by Solange De Santis

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

"Engaging—. Terrific—. Takes us over the collar line with grace and authority."—The New York Times

As a veteran reporter throughout the "downsizing" years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada, Queens-born Solange De Santis covered her fair share of auto plant closings, but almost always from the management's point of view. That is, until this mid-career, mid-thirties, Ivy League-educated journalist quit her job to become an assembly-line autoworker.

She was hired at a doomed General Motors plant, and quickly learned about the bone-crushing realities and mitigated rewards of hard, physical work. In Life on the Line, De Santis offers a glimpse into a world that too many of us shy away from acknowledging, even as we accept the keys to our new cars. Completely candid, and as unexpectedly poignant as it is funny, Life on the Line will change the way you view blue-collar work and the cars on which we all depend.

✦ Subjects

Biography & Autobiography, Business, Politics, Nonfiction, BIO026000, BUS033010, POL013000

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