Author Description

Zan Dale Robinson spent most of his early life in a variety of low paying jobs including stints as a carnival worker, stevedore, gandy dancer, warehouseman, burlesque straightman, and truck driver. He is a former boxer who has held cards in the Mariners and teamsters unions, and knows the inner working of the New York and Philadelphia docks. His collection of worker writings is a milestone in modern literature. The workplace is an authentic and revealing historical documentation of a world that is rapidly vanishing.