Barbara Ehrenreich
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan/Owl Book
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Edition
1st Owl Books ed.
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
235 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the downsides of the positive thinking mentality that is found in the business community, megachurches, and even in the medical profession, maintaining that this type of thinking only leads to frustration, guilt, and denial.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy....