Dr. Hoffman's Reccomendations:
George Orwell: Road to Wiggan Pier and Down and Out in Paris and London
Raymond Carver
Dorothy Allison
Studs Terkel: Working
George Saunders
Daniel Orozco: Orientation
Phillip Levine: What Work Is
Donald Ray Pollock: Knockemstiff (especially)
Bonnie Jo Campbell: American Salvage (especially)
Charles Yu
Lucia Berlin: A Manual for Cleaning Women
Jenny Bhatt: Each of Us Killers
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday BlackLink to Ethel Carrie Holdsworth's This Slavery
Amanda Arnold, "The Forgotten History of American Working Class Literature"
Paul Lauter, "Working Class Women's Literature: An Introduction to Study"