Barbara Ehrenreich

Ehrenreich, Barbara und Deidre English: Hexen, Hebammen und Krankenschwestern. The Witches are back. Im Anhang: Hebammen in Santa Cruz verhaftet von Jackie Christeve. Mit einem Literaturverzeichnis und einige Büchern über Hexen. Erstausgabe. München, Verlag Frauenoffensive, 1975.
Guter Zustand. - Barbara Ehrenreich (* 26. August 1941 als Barbara Alexander in Butte, Montana, USA) ist eine bekannte US-amerikanische Sachbuch-Autorin und journalistische Kolumnistin. Leben: Barbara Alexander studierte Physik am Reed College, machte ihren Abschluss 1963. Fünf Jahre später schloss sie mit einer Doktorarbeit in Mikrobiologie an der Rockefeller University ihre naturwissenschaftliche akademische Karriere ab. Fortan arbeitete sie journalistisch, lehrte und widmete sich den Zeitläuften der 1968er entsprechend politischen Themen. Ihren ersten Ehemann, John Ehrenreich, lernte sie während einer Anti-Vietnam-Krieg-Kampagne kennen. Zwischen 1991 und 1997 war Ehrenreich eine beständige Kolumnistin des Nachrichtenmagazins Time. Gegenwärtig schreibt sie regelmäßig eine Kolumne für The Progressive. Journalistisch war Ehrenreich häufig tätig für die New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Salon.com, und weitere. In den Jahren 1998 und 2000 hatte sie Lehraufträge für Essay-Schreiben an der Journalistenschule Graduate School of Journalism an der University of California in Berkeley. In den Folgejahren veröffentlichte sie mehrere Sachbücher, die Aufsehen erregten. Als investigative Journalistin recherchierte sie jeweils monatelang mit Undercover-Identitäten die Bewerbungslage und Arbeitswelt der McJobs und der mittleren Angestellten in den USA. Im Jahr 2006 gründete Ehrenreich United Professionals.

83 Seiten mit vielen Abbildungen. Illustrierte Originalbroschur. ISBN: 3920385764.

[SW: Medizin, Feminismus, Medizingeschichte, Heilkräfte, Alternative Heilmethoden, Medizinkritik, Heiler, Alternative Medizin, Medizinfrauen, Heilkunst, Kulturgeschichte, Esoterik]

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Ehrenreich, Barbara: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, New York Henry Holt & Company; A Metropolitan/Owl Book 2002 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0805063897
0805063897 Very Good

221 pp.; 22 cm. Includes a Reading Group Guide in the back. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. This excellent book shows how the working-class are getting screwed in George W. Bush's corporate-friendly America. "Our sharpest and most original social critic goes 'undercover' 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, on6 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. / Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed, Blood Rites, The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller), Fear of Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida." - Publisher. 24th printing Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 24th printing

[SW: Minimum wage United States, Working poor United States, Unskilled labor United States, Poverty United States]

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Ehrenreich, Barbara: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, New York Henry Holt and Company; Metropolitan Books 2005 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0805076069
0805076069 Very Good

237 pp.; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tiny stain/foreedge. Fine DJ. "The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume; of a professional 'in transition,' she attempts to land a middle-class job - undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and - again and again - rejected. Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything right - gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumes - yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today's ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their 'surplus' employees - plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly disposable workers - and little security even for those who have jobs. Like the now classic Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing expose; of economic cruelty where we least expect it. / Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed (0-8050-6389-7). A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. She lives in Virginia." - Publisher. First Edition, First Printing Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition, First Printing

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EHRENREICH, Barbara: BLOOD RITES: Origins & History of the Passions of War, NY Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt) 1999 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0805057870
0805057870 NEW BOOK Bonampak Murals of the Maya

CONDITION: NEW 1999 Metropolitian Books Trade Paperback, first printing. BUT it has a problem: shelfwear crease back cover. Interior perfect. CONTENT: In this ambitious work, Barbara Ehrenreich offers a daring explanation for humans' propensity to wage war. Rather than approach the subject from a physiological perspective, pinpointing instinct or innate aggressiveness as the violent culprit, she reaches back to primitive man's fear of predators and the anxieties associated with life in the food chain. To deal with the reality of living as prey, she argues that blood rites were created to dramatize and validate the life-and-death struggle. Jumping ahead to the modern age, Ehrenreich brands nationalism a more sophisticated form of blood ritual, a phenomenon that conjures similar fears of predation, whether in the form of lost territory or the more extreme ethnic cleansing. Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War may not offer a cure for human aggression, but the author does present a convincing argument for the difficulties associated with achieving peace. For those interested in the Ancient Americas, the Aztecs and Mayas as well as Native American Tribes are included in this book. Questions welcome/scan on request. First Thus, First Printing None Issued Trade Paperback 292 Pages History: World; First Thus, First Printing

[SW: 0805057870, Origins and History of the Passions of War, Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich, Maya, history of War, War, Warriors, Sacrifices, Sacrificial Death, Aztecs, Ancient World, Soldiers, Rome, Native Americans, Indians,]

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