Had I known collected essays
A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit.
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New York :
Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Haves and Have-nots. Nickel-and-dimed: on (not) getting by in America
- How you can save Wall Street
- S&M as public policy
- Going to extremes: CEOs vs. slaves
- Are illegal immigrants the problem?
- What's so great about gated communities?
- Is it now a crime to be poor?
- A homespun safety net
- Dead, white, and blue: the great die-off of America's blue-collar white people. Health. Welcome to Cancerland
- The naked truth about fitness
- Got Grease?
- Our broken mental health system
- Liposuction: the key to energy independence
- The selfish side of gratitude. Men. How "natural" is rape?
- The warrior culture
- At last, a new man
- Patriarchy deflated. Women. Are women getting sadder? Or are we all just getting a lot more gullible?
- Our neighborhood porn committee
- Strategies of corporate women
- What Abu Ghraib taught me
- Outclassed: sexual harassment (with Alissa Quart). God, Science, and Joy. Mind your own business
- The animal cure
- The missionary position
- The new creationism: biology under attack (with Janet McIntosh)
- Up close at Trinidad's carnival. Bourgeois blunders. Family values
- The cult of busyness
- Death of a Yuppie dream (with John Ehrenreich)
- The unbearable being of whiteness
- Is the middle class doomed?
- Welcome to Fleece U.
- Prewatched TV
- The recession's racial divide (with Dedrick Muhammad)
- Divisions of labor
- Throw them out with the trash: Why homelessness is becoming an Occupy Wall Street issue.
