"A book with fascinating range [and] a fresh perspective [that shows] how powerful the genre of oral history can be." - San Francisco Chronicle "Wrenching . Wide-ranging . This book is so important." - New York Daily News "A touching and all-too-necessary text." - Interview "Comparable in heft and style to Studs Terkel's Working , Not Working is as timely as its predecessor. [It] provides an in-depth look at a new type of American and reveals a new type of American story. The storytellers in Not Working .

show that, as a society, we're more than where we work." - City Arts (Seattle, WA) "Add[s] faces, personalities and pathos to the unemployment figures thrown around every month. Just as [Studs] Terkel showed how so many of us define ourselves with our work, Gibson's subjects demonstrate how, even beyond the financial havoc that ensues, losing a job unsettles a person's sense of self." - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) "Not Working reveals something Americans only talk about in numbers.  Gibson gives . the big picture of America's temperature." - Los Angeles Review of Books   "An intense, moving, ground-level history of our difficult times." -Teju Cole , author of Open City "Powerful and heartrending.

" -Ken Burns , documentary filmmaker.