The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East, credited to Walter A. Wyckoff, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East by Walter A. Wyckoff. Read by PhyllisV 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East
• Author credits: Walter A. Wyckoff
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:42:05

Catalogue topics

• social science
• ethnography
• working class
• working conditions
• economic history

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 4:09
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Part I - The Adjustment — 28:19
3. 02 - Chapter 1 - Part II - The Adjustment — 26:36
4. 03 - Chapter 2 - Part I - A Day Laborer at West Point — 27:46
5. 04 - Chapter 2 - Part II - A Day Laborer at West Point — 19:53
6. 05 - Chapter 2 - Part III - A Day Laborer at West Point — 31:46
7. 06 - Chapter 3 - Part I - A Hotel Porter — 26:06
8. 07 - Chapter 3 - Part II - A Hotel Porter — 24:01
9. 08 - Chapter 4 - Part I - A Hired Man at an Asylum — 31:32
10. 09 - Chapter 4 - Part II - A Hired Man at an Asylum — 28:54
11. 10 - Chapter 5 - Part I - A Farmhand — 29:52
12. 11 - Chapter 5 - Part II - A Farmhand — 29:04
13. 12 - Chapter 6 - Part I - In a Logging Camp — 31:12
14. 13 - Chapter 6 - Part II - In a Logging Camp — 22:29
15. 14 - Chapter 6 - Part III - In a Logging Camp — 22:53
16. 15 - Chapter 7 - Part I - In a Logging Camp (Concluded) — 28:55
17. 16 - Chapter 7 - Part II - In a Logging Camp (Concluded) — 24:05
18. 17 - Chapter 7 - Part III - In a Logging Camp (Concluded) — 24:33

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