The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East

Walter A. Wyckoff (1865 - 1908)

A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any job he could find, enduring hardships and struggling to make a living. He travelled mainly on foot, designing for himself a social experiment on experiencing different class and culture structures and the reality of working conditions at the end of the 19th century. This volume covers the Eastern part of the United States. - Summary by Phyllis Vincelli

The second volume The Workers - An Experiment in Reality - the West covers the Western part of the United States.

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface PhyllisV
00:04:09
Play 01 Chapter 1 - Part I - The Adjustment PhyllisV
00:28:19
Play 02 Chapter 1 - Part II - The Adjustment PhyllisV
00:26:36
Play 03 Chapter 2 - Part I - A Day Laborer at West Point PhyllisV
00:27:46
Play 04 Chapter 2 - Part II - A Day Laborer at West Point PhyllisV
00:19:53
Play 05 Chapter 2 - Part III - A Day Laborer at West Point PhyllisV
00:31:46
Play 06 Chapter 3 - Part I - A Hotel Porter PhyllisV
00:26:06
Play 07 Chapter 3 - Part II - A Hotel Porter PhyllisV
00:24:01
Play 08 Chapter 4 - Part I - A Hired Man at an Asylum PhyllisV
00:31:32
Play 09 Chapter 4 - Part II - A Hired Man at an Asylum PhyllisV
00:28:54
Play 10 Chapter 5 - Part I - A Farmhand PhyllisV
00:29:52
Play 11 Chapter 5 - Part II - A Farmhand PhyllisV
00:29:04
Play 12 Chapter 6 - Part I - In a Logging Camp PhyllisV
00:31:12
Play 13 Chapter 6 - Part II - In a Logging Camp PhyllisV
00:22:29
Play 14 Chapter 6 - Part III - In a Logging Camp PhyllisV
00:22:53
Play 15 Chapter 7 - Part I - In a Logging Camp (Concluded) PhyllisV
00:28:55
Play 16 Chapter 7 - Part II - In a Logging Camp (Concluded) PhyllisV
00:24:05
Play 17 Chapter 7 - Part III - In a Logging Camp (Concluded) PhyllisV
00:24:33