Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

By Barbara Ehrenreich

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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, And A Mother'S Will To Survive

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephanie Land, Ehrenreich, Barbara, Land, Stephanie

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara...

Maid Hard Work Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive

By Stephanie Land

Arbeit poor

By Barbara Ehrenreich

The Hearts Of Men: American Dreams And The Flight From Commitment

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich, Barbara

The fact that men marry in precisely the same numbers as women do conceals a basic inequality of motivation: namely, that in the sort of marriage we have rather suddenly come to see as "traditional...

The Hearts Of Men

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich, Barbara

From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, an explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds in recent history. "Finally someone is offering a new, utterly plausibl...

Bright-Sided: How The Relentless Promotion Of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich, Barbara

SUMMARY: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbea...

Dancing in the streets

By Barbara Ehrenreich

Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic rev...

Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich, Barbara

From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joyIn the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbar...