Dr. Hoffman's Reccomendations:
<ul>
 <li>George Orwell: Road to Wiggan Pier and Down and Out in Paris and London</li>
 <li>Raymond Carver</li>
 <li>Dorothy Allison</li>
 <li>Studs Terkel: Working</li>
 <li>George Saunders</li>
 <li>Daniel Orozco: Orientation</li>
 <li>Phillip Levine: What Work Is</li>
 <li>Donald Ray Pollock: Knockemstiff (especially)</li>
 <li>Bonnie Jo Campbell: American Salvage (especially)</li>
 <li>Charles Yu</li>
 <li>Lucia Berlin: A Manual for Cleaning Women</li>
 <li>Jenny Bhatt: Each of Us Killers</li>
 <li>Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black</li>
</ul>
Link to Ethel Carrie Holdsworth's <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/This_Slavery/WTkgAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">This Slavery</a>
Amanda Arnold,<a href="https://lithub.com/the-forgotten-history-of-american-working-class-literature/"> "The Forgotten History of American Working Class Literature"</a>
Paul Lauter, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276905172_Working-Class_Women's_Literature_An_Introduction_to_Study">"Working Class Women's Literature: An Introduction to Study"</a>

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