Saturday, October 17, 2009

“Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”

Last Tuesday, Author Barbara Ehrenreich was on Democracy Now speaking about her latest book, “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”




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3 comments:

  1. ElphabaNovember 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    Tell me more about this. I hadn't heard about it until I read your post.

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  2. WinonaNovember 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM

    Barbara has written many books. Nickel & Dimed is one of the more popular ones. Which her website describes as:
    "Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors."

    I really liked this book because she experienced what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck. It is one thing to write about the effects of welfare reform, but quite another to experience it and write about it.

    This latest book looks at her own experience with cancer and positive thinking.


    If you would like to learn more here is her website:
    http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/index.htm

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