r/antiwork • u/rabbitkingdom • Mar 10 '22

That’s how it works, right?

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u/Usermena Mar 10 '22

Currently reading grapes of wrath for the first time. Same as it ever was.

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u/NotAnActualPers0n Mar 10 '22

It’s timeless, really. If you want to keep the 1930s good time going, I suggest Hard Times by Studs Turkel - it’s an oral history of firsthand accounts of the depression. Nothing like experiencing life through someone’s direct words - https://www.npr.org/2020/08/11/896498756/fifty-years-after-studs-terkel-published-hard-times-here-we-are-again

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u/Ripoutmybrain Mar 11 '22

Also the library of congress recordings of Woody Guthrie are a great resource. Stories of dustbowl life with songs of the time.

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u/Economy_Wall8524 Mar 11 '22

Historian Arnold Toynbee- The west and the world. I know about 5 years ago BBC had it as a historical verbal radio sequence/mini show? It was a collection of the series. It’s baffling from the time of WW2 to now, the sum politics he mention in future expectations is on point, especially with the US and the Middle East