“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“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
It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard… — 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
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“However we resolve the issue in our individual homes, the moral challenge is, put simply, to make work visible again: not only… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's… — 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
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science… — 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
“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
People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they… — 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
