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Memoir about the service or labor industry - Extreme Reader 2023

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  • All the Living and the Dead

    From Embalmers to Executioners, An Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

    Campbell, Hayley,
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 363.75 C1526A 2022
  • Below Stairs

    the Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

    Powell, Margaret, 1907-1984
    Book, 2012New York : St. Martin's Press, [2012] — 641.5092 P87145B 1968
  • Dishwasher

    One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States

    Jordan, Pete
    Book, 2007New York : Harper Perennial, c2007. — 648.5 J765D
  • The Good Hand

    a Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in An American Boomtown

    Smith, Michael Patrick F.,
    Book, 2021[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — 331.7622 SM626G 2021
  • Hammer Head

    the Making of a Carpenter

    MacLaughlin, Nina,
    Book, 2015New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] — 694.092 M2228H 2015
  • Hand to Mouth

    Living in Bootstrap America

    Tirado, Linda
    Book, 2014New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. — 362.50973 T511H 2014
  • Heads in Beds

    a Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-called Hospitality

    Tomsky, Jacob
    Book, 2012New York : Doubleday, [2012] — 647.94092 T599H 2012
  • Heartland

    a Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

    Smarsh, Sarah,
    Book, 2018New York : Scribner, 2018. — 978.1033 SM27H 2018
  • Kitchen Confidential

    Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Bourdain, Anthony
    Book, 2007New York : Ecco, 2007. — 641.5092 B6661K 2007
  • The Long Haul

    a Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

    Murphy, Finn, 1958-
    Book, 2017New York, N.Y. : W W. Norton & Company, [2017] — 388.324092 M953L 2017
  • Made in China

    a Memoir of Love and Labor

    Qu, Anna,
    Book, 2021New York : Catapult, 2021. — 973.04951 Q2M 2021
  • Maid

    Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

    Land, Stephanie,
    Book, 2019New York : Hachette Books, 2019. — 331.48164 L2297M 2019
  • Malled

    My Unintentional Career in Retail

    Kelly, Caitlin
    Book, 2011New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2011. — 658.85 K2955M 2011
  • Mill Town

    Reckoning With What Remains

    Arsenault, Kerri,
    Book, 2020New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. — 974.175 AR72M 2020
  • Nickel and Dimed

    on (not) Getting by in America

    Ehrenreich, Barbara
    Book, 2011New York : Picador, 2011. — 305.569 EH84N 2011
  • The Radium Girls

    the Dark Story of America's Shining Women

    Moore, Kate (Writer and editor),
    Book, 2017Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017] — 363.179908 M7847R 2017
  • Ranger Confidential

    Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks

    Lankford, Andrea
    Book, 2010Guilford, Conn. : FalconGuides, [2010] — 333.783092 L276R 2010
  • Rust

    a Memoir of Steel and Grit

    Goldbach, Eliese Colette, 1986-
    Book, 2020New York : Flatiron Books, 2020. — B GOLDB-E 2020