Blue-Collar Journal: A College President's Sabbatical

By John Royston Coleman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0397010303
• ISBN13: 9780397010301
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I would like to meet the author.

I read this book (borrowed from a library) in 1978. I found it to be very readable and interesting. The author seemed very down-to-earth and insightful. I remember thinking at the time that he would be a good person to share a few beers and some conversation with. I plan to buy this book and reread it. Highly recommended if you are interested in its subject matter.

much better than Nickel and Dimed

This was a fascinating account of a college president using his sabbatical (in 1974) to try out various blue collar jobs such as a ditch digger, a salad man in a kitchen at The Oyster House, and a garbage collector. Unlike Barbara Erenriech he has a basic respect for workers at all levels and we get to know the satisfactions as well as the drawbacks of the jobs, and some of the people who do them, mostly well, sometimes badly. He has opinions, well expressed, but he doesn't have an ax to grind. And the prices & salaries 35 years ago will give you pause.