| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
110000 |
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optical rdarm |
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CD audio |
| Note |
Title from web page. |
| Performer |
Read by Suzanne Toren. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- How "natural" is rape? -- The warrior culture -- At last, a new man -- Patriarchy deflated -- 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) -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
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Social problems -- United States.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays.
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Social problems. (OCoLC)fst01122778
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1980
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Audiobooks.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Toren, Suzanne, narrator.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781549131349 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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1549131346 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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9781549131363 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
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1549131362 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
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