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 (y) Название: Bait and switch ISBN: 1862078971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781862078970 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 1978.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream ISBN: 0805081240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805081244 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) 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: Barbara Ehrenreich; Read by Anne Twomey Название: Bait and Switch UAB CD ISBN: 1593977298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593977290 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 2754.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Barbara Ehrenreich, read by Kate Reading Название: Bright-sided ISBN: 1427208360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781427208361 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 2758.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Barbara Ehrenreich; Read by Anne Twomey Название: Bait and Switch ISBN: 0792737474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792737476 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 5973.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Barbara Ehrenreich; Read by Anne Twomey Название: Bait and Switch UAB CAS ISBN: 1593977522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593977528 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 2294.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Barbara Ehrenreich; Read by Anne Twomey Название: Bait and Switch ISBN: 0792737466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792737469 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 3674.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Barbara Ehrenreich, read by Kate Reading Название: Bright-sided ISBN: 0792766695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792766698 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 5973.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Ehrenreich Barbara Название: Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class ISBN: 1455543756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781455543755 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich. One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century. Weaving finely-tuned expert analysis with her trademark voice, Ehrenreich traces the myths about the middle class to their roots, determines what led to the shrinking of what was once a healthy percentage of the population, and how, in its ambition and anxiety, that population has retreated from responsible leadership. Newly reissued and timely as ever, Fear of Falling places the middle class of yesterday under the microscope and reveals exactly how we arrived at the middle class of today.
Автор: Ehrenreich, Barbara (y) Название: Dancing in the streets ISBN: 1847080081 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847080080 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 2176.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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: Re-Making Love ISBN: 0385184999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385184991 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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