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This land is their land :

Ehrenreich, Barbara.

This land is their land : reports from a divided nation / - 1st ed. - New York : Metropolitan Books, 2008. - xii, 235 p. ; 22 cm.

Introduction -- Chasms of inequality -- This land is their land -- "Miami Vice" : the class analysis -- Home Depot's CEO-size tip -- Going to extremes : CEOs vs. slaves -- Banish the bloated overclass -- heating bill from Hell -- Got grease? -- Class struggle 101 -- Minimum wage rises, sky does not fall -- Could you afford to be poor? -- Desperately seeking stimulus -- Smashing capitalism -- Meanness on the rise -- Pension or penitentiary? -- Where the finger's pointing -- cheapskate warfare state -- Are illegal immigrants the problem? -- shame game -- new Cosby kids -- What America owes its "illegals" -- Strangling the middle class -- Freshpersons, welcome to debt! -- Party on -- Fastest-growing jobs of '06 : are you handy with bedpans and brooms? -- Your local news : Dateline Delhi -- That sinking feeling -- Recession : who cares? -- What's so great about gated communities? -- [pt. 1]. The [pt. 2]. The The The [pt. 3]. Hell day at work -- Circuit City slaughter -- JetBlue's corporate meltdown -- Blood in the chutney -- Workplace bullies -- Big (box) brother -- Invasion of the cheerleaders -- Fake your way to the top! -- Challenging the workplace dictatorship -- Gap kids : new frontiers in child abuse -- Wal-Mart licks its wounds -- French workers refuse to be "Kleenex" -- Declining health -- We have seen the enemy, and surrendered -- Gouging the poor -- high cost of doing without universal health care -- Health care vs. the profit principle -- Children deserve veterinary care too -- Our broken mental health system -- What causes cancer : probably not you -- society that throws the sick away -- Getting sex straight -- Fear of restrooms -- Let them eat wedding cake -- Opportunities in abstinence training -- Owning up to abortion -- How banning gay marriage will destroy the family -- Do women need Viagra? -- uterus is not a substitute for a conscience -- Who's wrecking the family? -- Bonfire of the princesses -- False Gods -- secret of mass delusion -- Who moved my ability to reason? -- All together now -- faith factor -- Follies of faith -- Is it safe to go back to church? -- God owes us an apology -- Postscript : Flee America -- Acknowledgments. [pt. 4]. [pt. 5]. The A [pt. 6]. A [pt. 7]. The The

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.

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Social problems--United States.


United States--Social conditions.

HN59.2 / .E29 2008

973.93