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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fear of falling : the inner life of the middle class (edizione 1990)di Barbara Ehrenreich
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It is always dangerous to assume that the people that one knows constitute the majority. On the other hand, Barbara Ehrenreich's characterization of the middle class failed to include most of the people that I know (I was 36 when this book was published.) Ehrenreich did little to document that her characterizations were accurate; she documents economic facts, for example, but not surveys of the attitudes of the people whose inner life she is supposedly discussing. Mostly she relied on the scorn for the demonized "yuppies" spreading a plague of selfishness. The people that I knew had lost confidence in the ability of the government to solve social problems. They expected the here-to-fore successful Social Security System to implode. Ehrenreich's title is right on point for their fears, but she mostly misses the implications in her text. Having lost confidence in the government's ability to meet crises, many middle-class people felt an increased need to fortify their own lives against disaster. They were certainly not encouraged to make sacrifices on behalf of the less well-off, especially if they thought that they would be futile in any case. I don't think that Ehrenreich understands their feelings or the trends that lay behind them, and certainly not the involvement of the left in creating them. And as E.J. Dionne said in his brilliant book Why Americans Hate Politics: "Many young voters who had been drawn to the New Left and the counterculture because they attacked authority were drawn to conservatism because it attacked the state. Thus did the New Left wage war against the paternalistic liberal state and defeat it. The right picked up the pieces". Bruce J. Schulman's The Seventies: the Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics also skillfully chronicles the transition. Whatever truths she may have revealed about other people, her book had little resonance for this member of the middle class. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro Wikipedia in inglese (12)A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich. One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century. Weaving finely-tuned expert analysis with her trademark voice, Ehrenreich traces the myths about the middle class to their roots, determines what led to the shrinking of what was once a healthy percentage of the population, and how, in its ambition and anxiety, that population has retreated from responsible leadership. Newly reissued and timely as ever, Fear of Falling places the middle class of yesterday under the microscope and reveals exactly how we arrived at the middle class of today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The story she tells in this one is painful. She shows the rise of the middle-class, how they made themselves a financial and politically important group based on professionalising what they did and excluding others. She talks of its permanent insecurity as a consequence. Even though I’ve always known about it, her analysis of the exploitation of the educated youth and their university-student-led rebellion of the sixties and seventies when university students were actually mowed down by troops in the US was particularly illuminating and excruciatingly sad; staff in universities trying to protect their status from the questioning of the kids who were expected to work at derisory rates in their young professional years. Staff more or less on the side of the troops. None of this has changed, one might add. She documents the discovery by the middle class, to its great astonishment, that there were poor people in the US and she examines the way in which the middle class then set about categorising them and determining how to relate to them. She shows the fabulously patronising attitudes to those below them and the trouble it has ultimately caused.
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