Barbara Ehrenreich

The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.

On (Not) Getting By in America

Nickel and Dimed

Una paga da fame. Come (non) si arriva alla fine del mese nel paese più ricco del mondo

Life, Death and the Illusion of Control

Natural Causes

A Non-Believer's Search for the Truth about Everything

Living with a Wild God

KIŞKIRTICI VE EĞLENCELİ. THE TIMES Yaşlanma karşıtlığı ve kontrol kültürü Batı toplumlarını tamamen etkisi altına almış durumda. Kaçınılmazı kontrol etmeye çabalıyor, kontrol edemeyeceklerimize endişeleniyoruz. Bedenimizin ve hatta ölümümüzün kontrolümüzde olduğuna inanıyoruz. Oysa en yeni bilimsel bulgular bedenimizin mikroskobik birimlerinin kendi kararlarını verdiğini ve bunun her zaman lehimize işlemediğini ortaya koyuyor. Pahalı yaşlanma karşıtı ürünler alıp rutin testler yaptırabilir, daha fazla karalahana yiyip kendimizi şifa arayışına adayabiliriz. Ama bunlar ancak kontrol yanılsamasına hizmet ediyor. Çoksatar yazarı Barbara Ehrenreich Sağlık Salgını'nda pop kültürden mevcut bilimsel yayınlara uzanan pek çok kaynaktan yararlanarak bedenlerimiz ve sağlık konusundaki takıntımızı inceliyor. Önleyici tıbbi görüntülemelerden, wellness ve farkındalık kavramlarına, son moda diyetlerden fitness kültürüne kadar, uzun ve sağlıklı yaşam için pazarlanan pek çok uygulamayı ele alırken bedenimiz, benliğimiz ve evrendeki yerimiz üzerine bambaşka bir bakış açısı kazandırıyor.

Sağlık Salgını

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Donne globali. Tate, colf e badanti

Deirdre English

This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert advice with a shaker of salt. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English ably show that many experts gleefully hammer recalcitrant souls into a shape acceptable to society, rather than encouraging people to find their own way. The book plunges into 150 years of misbegotten advice to women and questionable insights into feminine nature that have many modern parallels. In the service of better living through science, women have undergone deprivational rest cures that most war rules would disallow, submitted to surgical bludgeoning of ovaries and uterus to quell a list of unladylike behaviors, and humbly followed childcare advice that amounted to abuse. Though slanted by its bent toward worst cases and offenses against only one sex, it offers much to mull over for hopeful seekers of mix-and-bake directions for a better life.

150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women

For Her Own Good

Barbara Ehrenreich

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