Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1963-09-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780451621863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While "affluent society" and "conventional wisdom" (first used in this book) have entered the vernacular, the message of the book has not been so widely embraced--reason enough to rediscover The Affluent Society. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: John H. Goldthorpe
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521095334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This final book in The Affluent Worker series contains the findings and conclusions on the extent of working class embourgeoisment.
Author: Michael Harrington
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-08
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 068482678X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-04-29
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1400873185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand and create consumer "need" where none previously existed. Multinational corporations are the continuation of this power system on an international level. The goal of these companies is not the betterment of society, but immortality through an uninterrupted stream of earnings. First published in 1967, The New Industrial State continues to resonate today.
Author: John H. Goldthorpe
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-03-20
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0520933869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1429926643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.