By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to… — 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
“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
The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some… — 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
“Less mutable qualities, like age, may have worked against me too. My résumé revealed only that I was probably over forty. But… — 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
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
