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 Black
Link 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"
