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Insecure American How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It

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ISBN-10: 0520259718

ISBN-13: 9780520259713

Edition: 2009

Authors: Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Besteman, Barbara Ehrenreich

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/24/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.

Foreword
Acknowlegmetn
Introduction
Fortress America
A Nation of Gated Communities
Warmaking as the American Way of Life
Republic of Fear: The Rise of Punitive Governance in America
The New Economy
Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World
The Age of Wal-Mart
Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's Story
Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs
Insecurity as a Profit Center
Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities
Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood
The Most Vulnerable
Uneasy Street
Body and Soul: Profits from Poverty
Useless Suffering: The War on Homeless Drug Addicts
Walling Out Immigrants
Insecurity and Terror
Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today
Deploying Law as a Weapon in America's War on Terror
Insecurities of Body and Spirit
Death and Dying in Anxious America
Get Religion
List of Contributors
Index