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This land is their land, reports from a divided nation, Barbara Ehrenreich

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This land is their land, reports from a divided nation, Barbara Ehrenreich

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This land is their land

Medium

electronic resource eBook

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standards specifications

Responsibility statement

Barbara Ehrenreich

Sub title

reports from a divided nation

Summary

Denounces the twenty-first-century's first political decade as the cruelest in memory, in a report that analyzes such modern challenges as political and corporate corruption, the widening economic gap, and a rise in extreme conservatism

Table Of Contents

CHASMS OF INEQUALITY This Land Is Their Land 11 Miami Vice: The Class Analysis 14 Home Depot's CEO-Size Tip 17 Going to Extremes: CEOs vs. Slaves 20 Banish the Bloated Overclass 23 The Heating Bill from Hell 26 Got Grease? 29 Class Struggle loi 34 Minimum Wage Rises, Sky Does Not Fall 38 Could You Afford to Be Poor? 41 Desperately Seeking Stimulus 45 Smashing Capitalism 48 MEANNESS ON THE RISE Pension or Penitentiary? 55 Where the Finger's Pointing 57 The Cheapskate Warfare State 6o Are Illegal Immigrants the Problem? 64 The Shame Game 67 The New Cosby Kids 70 What America Owes Its "Illegals" 73 STRANGLING THE MIDDLE CLASS Freshpersons, Welcome to Debt! 79 Party On 82 Fastest-Growing Jobs of'o6: Are You Handy with Bedpans and Brooms? 85 Your Local News-Dateline Delhi 88 That Sinking Feeling 91 Recession-Who Cares? 94 What's So Great about Gated Communities? 98 HELL DAY AT WORK Circuit City Slaughter 105 JetBlue's Corporate Meltdown lo8 Blood in the Chutney 111 Workplace Bullies 114 Big (Box) Brother 119 Invasion of the Cheerleaders 123 Fake Your Way to the Top! 126 Challenging the Workplace Dictatorship 129 Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse 132 Wal-Mart Licks Its Wounds 135 French Workers Refuse to Be "Kleenex" 139 DECLINING HEALTH We Have Seen the Enemy-and Surrendered 145 Gouging the Poor 148 The High Cost of Doing without Universal Health Care 152 Health Care vs. the Profit Principle 155 Children Deserve Veterinary Care Too 158 Our Broken Mental Health System 161 What Causes Cancer: Probably Not You 164 A Society That Throws the Sick Away 167 GETTING SEX STRAIGHT Fear of Restrooms 173 Let Them Eat Wedding Cake 176 Opportunities in Abstinence Training 179 Owning Up to Abortion 183 How Banning Gay Marriage Will Destroy the Family 186 Do Women Need a Viagra? 189 A Uterus Is Not a Substitute for a Conscience 192 Who's Wrecking the Family? 197 Bonfire of the Princesses 200 FALSE GODS The Secret

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