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A vivid window into the world of working class men and the value of hard labor, set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Shiftless and unsatisfied in his life, Michael Patrick Smith decided in his mid-thirties to seek out the hardest work he could find, to see if he could do it. He wanted to be a person, unlike his father, who knew how to work and get things done. He found himself in the oil fields of North Dakota during the Bakken fracking boom of 2013, where he spent a year as a swamper, assisting the truck drivers who hauled oil rigs from one site to another. The Good Hand is a…
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6 editions- Other · English · 2022Penguin Publishing Group · 9781984881533
- Other · English · 2022HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008399481
- Other · English · 2021HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008399450
- Other · English · 2021HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 458 pages · 9780008399436
- Other · English · 2021Penguin Publishing Group · 9781984881519
- Other · English · 2021Penguin Publishing Group · 464 pages · 9781984881526
Oil industriesHydraulic fracturingWorking class, united statesNorth dakota, biographyOil industry workersWorking class men