Work and Working; Five Best Books

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Aman Sethi on stories about work and working. Wall Street Journal, Nov 24, 2012 (in the column Five Best: A personal choioce).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 21383220268700.html

Note:
(a) The column is written every Saturday by a different person, who selects five of his favorites on a theme, which were usually published in the past, rather than recently.
(b) The Nights of Labor
Jacques Rancière, The Nights of Labor; The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France. Temple University Press, (French in 1981; English in 1989).
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/512_reg_print.html
("this first English translation of Les Nuits des Prolétaires dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but against the unyielding predetermination of their lives")
(i) French
nuit (noun feminine): "night"
prolétaire (n masculine): "Proletarian"
(ii) Revolutions of 1830
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1830

(c) Under (3) Rivethead, the article mentioned "a Surburban chasis."

Chevrolet Suburban
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Suburban
(sport utility vehicle; Production  1933-present)

(d) Under (4) Down and Out in Paris and Lomdon, the article talked about:
(i) French
plongeur (noun masculine): "diver, dishwasher"
(ii) "Orwell tramps from workhouse to workhouse."
(A) tramp (vi): "to walk, tread, or step especially heavily <tramped loudly on the stairs>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tramp
(B) workhouse (n): "British : POORHOUSE"
(C) poorhouse (n): "a place maintained at public expense to house needy or dependent persons"

(e) Francis Galton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton
(1822-1911; English)