Scenes from the American Working Class

What have depictions of the working class in popular culture added to our understanding of the professional lives of Americans? Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land offers twelve unique and profound answers from some of the most impactful and timeless novels ( O! Pioneers , Ann Vickers , and Native Son ), films ( Blue Collar , Wall Street , and Other People’s Money ), television shows ( The Wire and Mad Men ), songs (the work of Bruce Springsteen), and poems (Natasha Tretheway’