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This land is their land reports from a divided nation

Ehrenreich's second work of satirical commentary reflects on one of the cruelest decades in memory--the 2000's--in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.

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Main Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Social problems > United States.
United States > Social conditions.
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Table of Contents:
  • CHASMS OF INEQUALITY. This land is their land
  • "Miami Vice": the class analysis
  • Home Depot's CEO-size tip
  • Going to extremes: CEOs vs. slaves
  • Banish the bloated overclass
  • The heating bill from hell
  • Got grease?
  • Class struggle 101
  • Minimum wage rises, sky does not fall
  • Could you afford to be poor?
  • Desperately seeking stimulus
  • Smashing capitalism
  • MEANNESS ON THE RISE. Pension or penitentiary?
  • Where the finger's pointing
  • The cheapskate warfare state
  • Are illegal immigrants the problem?
  • The shame game
  • The new Cosby kids
  • What America owes its "illegals"
  • STRANGLING THE MIDDLE CLASS. Freshpersons, welcome to debt!
  • Party on
  • Fastest-growing jobs of '06: are you handy with bedpans and brooms?
  • Your local news: Dateline Delhi
  • That sinking feeling
  • Recession: who cares?
  • What's so great about gated communities?
  • HELL DAY AT WORK. Circuit City slaughter
  • JetBlue's corporate meltdown
  • Blood in the chutney
  • Workplace bullies
  • Big (box) brother
  • Invasion of the cheerleaders
  • Fake your way to the top!
  • Challenging the workplace dictatorship
  • Gap kids: new frontiers in child abuse
  • Wal-Mart licks its wounds
  • French workers refuse to be "Kleenex"
  • DECLINING HEALTH. We have seen the enemy, and surrendered
  • Gouging the poor
  • The high cost of doing without universal health care
  • Health care vs. the profit principle
  • Children deserve veterinary care too
  • Our broken mental health system
  • What causes cancer: probably not you
  • A society that throws the sick away
  • GETTING SEX STRAIGHT. Fear of restrooms
  • Let them eat wedding cake
  • Opportunities in abstinence training
  • Owning up to abortion
  • How banning gay marriage will destroy the family
  • Do women need Viagra?
  • A uterus is not a substitute for a conscience
  • Who's wrecking the family?
  • Bonfire of the princesses
  • FALSE GODS. The secret of mass delusion
  • Who moved my ability to reason?
  • All together now
  • The faith factor
  • Follies of faith
  • Is it safe to go back to church?
  • God owes us an apology
  • Flee America.

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