A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and anxieties that torment the group and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.

Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

Politics & Social Sciences

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The first novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Falling and The Worst Years of Our Lives is a futuristic thriller about science, love, politics, and social disarray. "An intriguing fusion of subject and style."-- Entertainment Weekly.

Kipper's Game

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Perennial

A satirist and social commentator looks into the soul of the 1990s in a collection of essays that takes a sharp look at both conservative and liberal viewpoints

The Snarling Citizen: Essays

Essays & Correspondence

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" in Nickel and Dmined as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. 
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors.
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.

Reference

Picador

Barbara Ehrenreich's New York Times bestselling Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism 
Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are told.
In this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the false promises of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, from Evangelical megachurches to the medical establishment, and, worst of all, to the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes--like mortgage defaults--contributed directly to the current economic disaster. With the myth-busting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of positive thinking: personal self-blame and national denial. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best--poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.

Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

In her search for her son, the inventor of an addictive computer game, Della Markson teams up with her former professor, Alex MacBride, who is himself searching for the papers of a long dead neurobiologist. A first novel.

United States

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A satirist and social commentator looks into the soul of the 1990s in a collection of essays that contain something to offend everyone, from Rush Limbaugh to Hillary Clinton, and delight anyone who still believes humanity may be worthwhile. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

World Literature

There are no pieties, liberal or conservative, in Ehrenreich's world. Fiercely funny and militantly uncompromising, The Snarling Citizen contains something to offend almost everyone, from Rush Limbaugh to Hillary Clinton, and something to delight everyone who believes humans are worth saving after all.

Politics & Government

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.

For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women

Women's Studies

Anchor Press

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Books by Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

Kipper's Game

The Snarling Citizen: Essays

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Kipper's Game

The Snarling Citizen: Essays

The Snarling Citizen: Essays

For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women