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Eberstadt, Nick

Summary: By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession—lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work—most especially among America’s men. Nicholas Eberstadt, a political...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Templeton Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 EBE

Summary: Filmmaker Moore examines the history of free-market capitalism in post-Reagan America and questions its efficacy as the basis for the nation's economy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAP

Freed, Dolly.

Summary: Freed guides readers on how to buy and maintain a home, dress well, stay healthy, save money, and be lazy, proud, miserly, and honest, all while enjoying leisure and keeping up a middle-class faȧde. Possum Living instructs on practical matters, including how to grow and can food, raise and slaughter rabbits, catch and cook fish and turtles, and distill your own moonshine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home Freed

Summary: Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonderful 2010

Browning, Dominique.

Summary: Browning, former editor in chief of House & Garden magazine, offers a humorous and moving work about losing a job and winning a life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas & Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNING, DOMINIQUE BRO

Summary: Demonstration of unemployed in Dublin, Ireland

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953

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Lancaster, Jen

Summary: A memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life and perfect job vanishes when she goes from a six-figure career to unemployment, and, forced to do some soul searching, becomes an author.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LAN

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