This Land Is Their Land by Ehrenreich, Barbara -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Chasms of Inequality

This Land Is Their Land Miami Vice: The Class Analysis Home Depot’s CEO-Size Tip Going to Extremes: CEOs vs. Slaves Banish the Bloated Overclass The Heating Bill from Hell Got Grease? Class Struggle 101 Minimum Wage Rises, Sky Does Not Fall Could You Afford to Be Poor? Desperately Seeking Stimulus Smashing Capitalism

Meanness on the Rise

Pension or Penitentiary? Where the Finger’s Pointing The Cheapskate Warfare State Are Illegal Immigrants the Problem? The Shame Game The New Cosby Kids What America Owes Its “Illegals”

Strangling the Middle Class

Freshpersons, Welcome to Debt! Party On Fastest-Growing Jobs of ’06: Are You Handy with Bedpans and Brooms? Your Local News—Dateline Delhi That Sinking Feeling Recession—Who Cares? What’s So Great about Gated Communities?

Hell Day at Work

Circuit City Slaughter JetBlue’s Corporate Meltdown Blood in the Chutney Workplace Bullies Big (Box) Brother Invasion of the Cheerleaders Fake Your Way to the Top! Challenging the Workplace Dictatorship Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse Wal-Mart Licks Its Wounds French Workers Refuse to Be “Kleenex”

Declining Health

We Have Seen the Enemy—and Surrendered Gouging the Poor The High Cost of Doing without Universal Health Care Health Care vs. the Profit Principle Children Deserve Veterinary Care Too Our Broken Mental Health System What Causes Cancer: Probably Not You A Society That Throws the Sick Away

Getting Sex Straight

Fear of Restrooms Let Them Eat Wedding Cake Opportunities in Abstinence Training Owning Up to Abortion How Banning Gay Marriage Will Destroy the Family Do Women Need a Viagra? A Uterus Is Not a Substitute for a Conscience Who’s Wrecking the Family? Bonfire of the Princesses

False Gods

The Secret of Mass Delusion Who Moved My Ability to Reason? All Together Now The Faith Factor Follies of Faith Is It Safe to Go Back to Church? God Owes Us an Apology Postscript: Flee America

Acknowledgments