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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Main Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, [2020]
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.