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Ehrenreich, Barbara
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
New York Henry Holt and Company; Metropolitan Books 2005 0805076069 / 9780805076066 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine
237 pp.; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tiny stain/foreedge. Fine DJ. "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. 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. / Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed (0-8050-6389-7). A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. She lives in Virginia." - Publisher.
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Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Hochschild, Arlie Russell (Joint Editors)
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
New York Metropolitan Books; Henry Holt and Company 2003 080506995X / 9780805069952 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Very Good Collectible SIGNED
vi, 328 pp., biblio.; 25 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild on the title page, no dedication. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket, with a stain along the bottom edge of the back cover, protected in a mylar book cover. "In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. 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 Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. The migrant nanny--or cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maid--eases a 'care deficit' in rich countries, while her absence creates a 'care deficit' back home. Confronting a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles and the selling of Thai girls to Japanese brothels, Global Woman offers an unprecedented look at a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale. In fifteen vivid essays-- of which only four have been previously published-- by a diverse and distinguished group of writers, collected and introduced by bestselling authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this important anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from the third world is no longer gold or silver, but love. / Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and The Worst Years of Our Lives, as well as Blood Rights. Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of national bestsellers The Time Bind and The Second Shift." - Publisher.
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
New York Henry Holt & Company; A Metropolitan/Owl Book 2002 0805063897 / 9780805063899 24th printing Trade Paperback Very Good
221 pp.; 22 cm. Includes a Reading Group Guide in the back. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. This excellent book shows how the working-class are getting screwed in George W. Bush's corporate-friendly America. "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 int 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. / Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed, 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 contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida." - Publisher.
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Broad, Robin, and Cavanagh, John; Ehrenreich, Barbara (Foreword by)
Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines
Berkeley, CA University of California Press 1993 0520080815 / 9780520080812 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
Cloth, xvi, 197 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "This gripping portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Traveling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are disappearing along with their country's natural resources. The result is an inspiring, informative account of how peasants, fishers, and other laborers have united to halt the plunder and to improve their lives. These people do not debate global warming--they know that their very lives depend on the land and oceans, so they block logging trucks, protest open-pit mining, and replant trees. In a country where nearly two-thirds of the children are impoverished, the reclaiming of natural resources is offering young people hope for a future. Plundering Paradise is essential reading for anyone interested in development, the global environment, and political life in the Third World." - Publisher.
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