“Today, white-collar job insecurity is no longer a function of the business cycle--rising as the stock market falls and declining again when… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie and a sense of collective… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The career coaching industry can only expand. Whether or not the economy improves. And this is because the corporate world has changed.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Suppose that the [career] transition zone encouraged free-ranging discussion. What might the topics of conversation be? For a start, people might want… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is pure hell. I'll write something and look at it in a few hours and say, "This is crap. What… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it -… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I had pictured the corporate world that I seek to enter as a castle on a hill, outside of which the starving… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“But the white collar workforce seems to consist of two groups: those who can’t find work at all and those who are… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“And no matter how upbeat they are—no matter how ingenious and flexible—the unemployed and underemployed understand that the clock is always ticking… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
