Going To Extremes, Ehrenreich,Barb

Автор: Ehrenreich Barbara, Bershtel Sara
Название: Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting by in America
ISBN: 1250808316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250808318
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes undercover as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.

Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job--any job--can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour?

To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly unskilled, that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how prosperity looks from the bottom. You will never see anything--from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal--in quite the same way again.

Автор: Ehrenreich Barbara
Название: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
ISBN: 0805081240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805081244
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 10420.00 T
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Описание: The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from "our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism"--The New York Times Book Review
Americans' working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by "middle-class" jobs are a thing of the past.
In "Bait and Switch," Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible resume of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a "middle-class" job. She submits to career coaching, personality testing, and EST-like boot camps, and attends job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected.
"Bait and Switch" highlights the people who have done everything right--gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumes--yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. There are few social supports for these newly disposable workers, Ehrenreich discovers, and little security even for those who have jobs. Worst of all, there is no honest reckoning with the inevitable consequences of the harsh new economy; rather, the jobless are persuaded that they have only themselves to blame.
Alternately hilarious and tragic, "Bait and Switch," like the classic "Nickel and Dimed," is a searing expose of the cruel new reality in which we all now live.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fourteen books, including "Dancing in the Streets" and "The" "New York Times" bestsellers "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch." A frequent contributor to "Harper's" and "The Nation," she has also been a columnist at "The New York Times" and "Time" magazine. A "Chicago Tribune "Best Book of the Year The bestselling author of "Nickel and Dimed" goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in "Bait and Switch," she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a middle-class job--undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected.
"Bait and Switch" highlights the people who've done everything right--gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumes--yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today's ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their "surplus" employees--plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly disposable workers--and little security even for those who have jobs. "A worthy companion to "Nickel and Dimed ." . . The new book provides a victim's-eye view of the world of unemployed white-collar workers--people struggling, mostly in vain, to recoup the high wages and prestige they lost after being dismissed from the not-so-secure confines of corporate America . . . Like the now classic "Nickel and Dimed," "Bait and Switch "is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing expose of economic cruelty where we least expect it."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Ehrenreich's acerbic critiques are devastating . . . She does a superb job of focusing the spotlight on a nether world of those without jobs o

Автор: Ehrenreich, Barbara (y)
Название: Bait and switch
ISBN: 1862078971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781862078970
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: Intrigued by reports of poverty and despair within America`s white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to learn about the problems facing middle-class executives. Her story is poignant and blackly funny and delivers a warning about the future that faces corporate employees everywhere.

Автор: Ehrenreich Barbara
Название: Living with a Wild God
ISBN: 1847084109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847084101
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: One of the finest thinkers of our time grapples with fundamental, deeply personal, questions of belief

Автор: Ehrenreich,Barb
Название: Had I Known (Flapped Bpb)
ISBN: 1783786884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783786886
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Описание: A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America`s most significant left-leaning journalists and activists.

Автор: Ehrenreich,Barb
Название: Had I Known (Ebook)
ISBN: 1783786906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783786909
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Автор: Ehrenreich, Barbara
Название: Re-Making Love
ISBN: 0385184999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385184991
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Ehrenreich Barbara
Название: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever`s Search for the Truth about Everything
ISBN: 1538733692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538733691
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world.

Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In Living With a Wild Dog, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find ""the Truth"" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a ""mystical experience""-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering.

In Living With a Wild Dog, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.

Автор: Ehrenreich, Barbara (y)
Название: Dancing in the streets
ISBN: 1847080081 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847080080
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Описание: `Dancing in the Streets is a genuine triumph of popular critical scholarship - the punchy elegance of [Ehrenreich`s] prose makes this an essential purchase` Independent

Автор: Ehrenreich Barbara
Название: Kipper`s Game
ISBN: 145554373X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781455543731
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Цена: 14710.00 T
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Автор: Ehrenreich Barbara, Hochschild Arlie
Название: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
ISBN: 0805075097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805075090
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 11650.00 T
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Описание: “Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman.” —The New York Times
Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones—easing a “care deficit” in rich countries, while creating one back home.
Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles, "Global Woman" offers an original look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing nations is no longer gold or silver, but love.

Автор: Ehrenreich,Barb
Название: Global Woman
ISBN: 1862075883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781862075887
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Описание: In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as never before. This anthology examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide.