- ISBN13: 9781439154793
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Seasoned journalist and professor Dick Reavis reported to a labor hall each morning, hoping to “catch out,” or get job assignments. To supplement his retirement savings, the sixty-two-year-old North Carolinian joined people dispatched by an agency to manual jobs for which they were paid at the end of each day.Written with the flair of a gifted portraitist and storyteller, Catching Out describes Reavis’s jobs at a factory; as a construction and demolition worker, landscaper, road crew flagman, auto-auction driver and warehouseman; and several days spent sorting artifacts in a dead packrat’s apartment. On one pick-and-shovel job, he finds that his partner is too blind to see the hole they’re digging. In each sett… More >>
Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
