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Is This Working? : The Jobs We Do, Told by the People Who Do Them by Charlie Colenutt cookbook prune and PX cake with'Fascinating and often moving' The Sunday Times'Unique and unexpectedly moving: its a choral work of frustration, pride and despair' The Telegraph'Charlie Colenutts intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work . . . Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now.' Polly ToynbeeFor the best part of two years Charlie Colenutt travelled the country to talk to a hundred strangers, from