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Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking. On a personal level, it leads to self-blame; on a national level, it's ushered in an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster.

Barbara Ehrenreich: This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: America in the 'aughts — hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country's most prominent social critics Now in paperback, Barbara Ehrenreich's widely acclaimed This Land Is Their Land takes the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory and finds lurid extremes all around. While members of the moneyed elite have bought up…

Barbara Ehrenreich: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «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…