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Author Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958-

Title Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work / Jeanne Marie Laskas.

Publication Info. New York : Berkley Publishing Group, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  305.562 LASKAS    Check Shelf
Edition Berkley trade paperback edition.
Description 318 pages ; 23 cm
Note Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2012.
Contents Underworld: Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio -- Hecho en America: migrant labor camp, Cherryfield, Maine -- G-L-O-R-Y: Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Traffic: air traffic control tower, LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York -- Guns 'r' Us: Sprague's Sports, Yuma, Arizona -- Beef: R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas -- The rig: Pioneer National Resources oil rig, Oooguruk Island, off the shores of Alaska's North Slope -- Sputter: I-80, exit 284, Walcott, Iowa -- This is paradise: Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California.
Subject Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958- -- Travel -- United States.
Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958- (OCoLC)fst00366718
Chronological Term Since 1971
Subject Working class -- United States -- Social conditions.
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
Working class -- United States -- Social life and customs.
Manual work -- Social aspects -- United States.
Subculture -- United States.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Manual work -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01007988
Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
Subculture. (OCoLC)fst01136426
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
Working class -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01180525
Working class -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01180527
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 042526727X (paperback)
9780425267271 (paperback)
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