Sawdusted: A Millhand’s Chronicle of Hell-Raising and Hard Work

Sawdusted is a memoir of Raymond Goodwin’s twenty months as a young lumber stacker in a northern Michigan sawmill. In thirty pithy chapters, he describes the hilarity and heartbreak of working in a low paying job with little opportunity for advancement. Goodwin chronicles the highs and lows of the working-class’ heroic struggle to maintain a work ethic and the self-respect needed to make it through another day.