Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday Books
- Publish date: 01/01/2008
Unlike our image of the immigrant daughter dreaming of the elite world of high-powered business, De Santis was always fascinated with the world of truly hard work, with people who sweat and lift and labor to make the things those in the white-collar world take for granted. What De Santis found at the failing GM plant where she worked was at times surprising, even humorous, and at others grim: she found equal measures of competent hard workers, raging alcoholics, mindless bureaucrats, and good friends. In the process she challenged her physical breaking points and her own assumptions about blue-collar life and the people who live it. In "Life On The Line", she offers more than a glimpse into a world that too many of us shy 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 the man-made products on which we all depend.
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