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Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022)

Auteur de L'Amérique pauvre. Comment ne pas survivre en travaillant

32+ oeuvres 20,795 utilisateurs 538 critiques 54 Favoris

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Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, afficher plus she lives near Key West, Florida. (Publisher Fact Sheets) Political activist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana on August 26, 1941. She studied physics at Reed College and graduated in 1963. She received a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Rockefeller University in 1968. Rather than pursuing a career in science, however, she decided to focus on social change. Ehrenreich has written columns and contributed articles to publications including Time Magazine, The Progressive, The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and The Nation. She taught essay writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and 2000. Ehrenreich has written many books, with 2001's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America and 2005's Bait and Switch, The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream both becoming New York Times bestsellers. Nickel and Dimed examines working-class poverty, while Bait and Switch discusses white-collar unemployment. Her next bestseller was in 2014 with Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything. In 1998 Ehrenreich was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association, and she received the Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation Prize for Creative Citizenship in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Œuvres de Barbara Ehrenreich

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (2003) — Directeur de publication — 482 exemplaires

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A very important book for employees, white-collar and common people. I can only say: Indignez-vous! time for outrage! We have 2022 and nothing has changed since 2009: the richer become richer, and the poor poorer. Don`t blame yourself for this. You can find Ehrenreich Barbara on youtube.
 
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