America Works

著者： Library of Congress
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  • Features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center's Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today's working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center's archive, are enriching and expanding America's historical record.
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Features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center's Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today's working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center's archive, are enriching and expanding America's historical record.
社会科学
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    Sonny Amato, Taxidermist. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
    2025/04/17

    Master taxidermist Sonny Amato, who has been operating his own taxidermy business in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for over 50 years, talks about learning and plying his trade with folklorist Doug Manger, who interviewed him for the Occupational Folklife Project “Baton Rouge, Small Businesses and Trades.”
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    6 分
  • Dale Baumgartner, Head Cheese Maker, Tillamook Cheese. Tillamook, Oregon.

    Dale Baumgartner, Head Cheese Maker, Tillamook Cheese. Tillamook, Oregon.
    2024/10/17

    Dale Baumgartener, long-time Head Cheese Maker at the Tillamook County Creamery Association, a farmer-owned cheese and dairy cooperative, talks with folklorist Jared Schmidt for his Occupational Folklife Project “Tillamook: Cheesemakers in Coastal Oregon.” He talks about growing up on a dairy farm, his start in the cheese industry, and his pride in working for a nationally respected brand like Tillamook Cheese.
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    5 分
  • Phuong Mai Nguyen and Amp Phettaphong, Family Restaurant Owners. Columbus, Ohio.

    Phuong Mai Nguyen and Amp Phettaphong, Family Restaurant Owners. Columbus, Ohio.
    2024/10/10

    Phuong Mai Nguyen and her husband Amp Phettaphong, owners of the popular Indochine Café in Columbus, Ohio, came to the US as refugees and, after working a variety of other jobs, stared their own restaurant. The couple talk with folklorist Jess Lamar Reece Holler at their restaurant between lunch and dinner shifts by as part of Hollar’s Occupational Folklife Project “Back of House: Kitchen Workers in Central Ohio.”
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    7 分

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