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Summary: From the Publisher: A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: Ehrenreich's second work of satirical commentary reflects on one of the cruelest decades in memory--the 2000's--in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: Barbara describes the, often unsucessful, process of trying to get a new job in today's society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 650.14 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: 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 -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 EHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 EHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business Ehrenreich 2001Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 155.2 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: To discover how others exist on minimum wage, the author leaves her home, takes the cheapest lodgings she can find, and accepts whatever jobs she's offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she works variously as a waitress, nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She learned many things, including the fact that one job is not enough: you need at least two if you intend to live...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.569 EhrEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1990