Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just...
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Questions for Barbara Ehrenreich Through over three decades of journalism and activism and over a dozen books, Barbara Ehrenreich has been one of the most consistent and imaginative chroniclers of class in America, but it was her bestselling 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, a undercover expose of the...
The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Paperback)
Review 'In a superb book called Nickel and Dimed, soon to be published in Britain, the journalist Barbara Ehrenreich sets off to find work as a cleaner or waitress in various American cities, and to live off her wages. Of the many disturbing aspects of the book, perhaps the most eerie is her...
Nickel and Dimed On Not (Getting) By in America put things in prospective for you. That’s what I would say, after reading this novel I see how a college education can make a huge difference. Nickel and Dimed showed me the value if every nickel and dime I have ever spent. Parents, if you want...
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back
Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), Norah Vincent absorbed a cultural experience and reported back on what she observed incognito. For more than a year and a half she ventured into the world as Ned, with an ever-present five...
Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just...
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy [Paperback]
The current discourse on globalization, according to the authors, has little to say about the "migration of maids, nannies, nurses, sex workers, and contract brides," since, to most economists, these women "are just individuals making a go of it." The positive effects of their...
Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
Is the American Dream still alive or has it, in fact, been drowned out by a clashing of the classes? Is the upper class destined to rule forever while the lower classes are forced to live in the same cyclical misery? Millions of Americans fight for the answers to these questions every day, and...
Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray
As Owings knew when she decided to explore the large, understudied world of the American waitress, many women have worked as waitresses at some point in their lives because it requires little training. Marrying social history and oral history, the author deftly explores her themes, primarily...
You turn into a middle-class, suburban housing project on the periphery of Charlottesville, Virginia, and at a row of attached homes, you pull up in front of the one with the yellow "for sale" sign on the tiny patch of grass. Ushered inside, you take in an interior of paint cans, a mop and...
When I flew to Seattle last week, airport security gave me trouble over the four-pound ham I was carrying. Several TSA officials gathered to consider the question of whether ham is a "gel," to which I retorted: If ham is a gel, so am I. I suggested that they biopsy it for hidden...
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Industry Reviews "Sharp, empathetic, astute...." Kirkus Reviews (04/01/2001) "[A] valuable and illuminating book." New York Times Book Review - Dorothy Gallagher (05/13/2001) "[A] clear-eyed portrait of how the bottom third lives, and a complacency-shaking expose of the...
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Paperback)
'In a superb book called Nickel and Dimed, soon to be published in Britain, the journalist Barbara Ehrenreich sets off to find work as a cleaner or waitress in various American cities, and to live off her wages. Of the many disturbing aspects of the book, perhaps the most eerie is her experience...
Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on track A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it? Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New...
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story [Paperback]
From Publishers Weekly Married for 13 years, Gurwitch and Kahn look back with laughter at the highs, the lows, and their different marital needs. Writer-actor Kahn (Curb Your Enthusiasm) won an Emmy for scripting The Ben Stiller Show; actress Gurwitch (Seinfeld) produced a documentary adapted from...
Nickel and Dimed is all about how people with low wage jobs get by in life. Nickel and Dimed depicts the on-going struggle that people who live in poverty go through. ItÂ’s like a circle that never ends. Once in poverty, itÂ’s an extremely hard cycle to get out of. Barbara represents the struggle...
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Paperback)
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Hochschild, Shara Kay (Editor)
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller); Fear of Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and eight other books. A frequent contributer to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The...
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich's Bait and Switch is a worthy companion to Nickel and Dimed, her engaging and infuriating 2001 exposé of the hard lives of working-class Americans. The new book provides a victim's-eye view of the world of unemployed white-collar workers -- people struggling, mostly...
From School Library Journal Silvey has put together contemporary and classic adult and YA titles that meet her criteria for exemplary writing and wide appeal. Familiar groupings such as "Fantasy," "Historical Fiction," and "Mystery" accompany newer subject areas such as...
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly Checking in on a friend's brother at Ivenwald, a Washington-based fundamentalist group living communally in Arlington, Va., religion and journalism scholar Sharlet finds a sect whose members refer to Manhattan's Ground Zero as "the ruins of secularism";...
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The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry
The Fantasy Factory is a rather short and rather dry look at the behind the scenes of the Sex Phone industry and in particular, one company. As there are only a couple dozen real life accounts of what it is like to work as an operator, the book is rather anecdotal. In tone and approach the book is...
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Paperback)
"A brilliant marriage of investigative journalism and history, an unsettling story of how this small but powerful group shaped the faith of the nation in the 20th century and drives the politics of empire in the 21st. Anyone interested in circles of power will love this book." -- Debby...
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation (Paperback)
Despite long national claims to being a classless society, the U.S. has a growing gulch between the haves and have-nots and what used to be the middle class. Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed (2001) and Bait and Switch (2005), catalogs the many ways that the rich are getting richer and the rest...
Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do (Hardcover)
Thompson (There's No José Here) details working alongside undocumented workers in this stirring look at the bottom rung of America's economic ladder. Thompson's project feels initially like a gimmick; that this middle-class white American can go undercover in the lettuce fields of...
The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and even the poorest among us feel that...
The Mind At Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Studs Terkel's Working, The Mind at Work is an illuminating reassessment of American labor. Testimonials to physical work have always celebrated the dignity, the economic and moral value, even the nobility of blue-collar labor,...
Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
Adam Shepard graduated from college in the summer of 2006 feeling disillusioned by the apathy he saw around him and incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's famous works Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch—books that gave him a feeling of hopelessness over the state of the working...
Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
“Illegal People documents how undocumented workers have become the worlds most exploited workforcesubject to raids and arrests, forced to work at low pay and under miserable conditions, and prevented from organizing on their own behalf. In this richly reported book, David Bacon makes a...
Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers
In many ways this book is a gem. It encourages critical thinking and it provides useful information on employment data and variety of other topics. However, if you are an average reader hoping that after reading this book you will be able to identify when the media manipulate the numbers, you will...
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back
Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), Norah Vincent absorbed a cultural experience and reported back on what she observed incognito. For more than a year and a half she ventured into the world as Ned, with an ever-present...
The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families
How the United States turns its back on the working poor. An astonishing 35 million Americans work full time but do not make a living wage. They are nursing home staff, poultry processors, pharmacy assistants, ambulance drivers, child care workers, data entry keyers, janitors. Indeed, one in four...
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