Fear of Falling, Barbara Ehrenreich
Fear of Falling, Barbara Ehrenreich
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Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrator: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 01/07/2020


Synopsis

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.

Author Bio

Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the 2002 New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times. She has contributed to The Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, and salon.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on November 09, 2021

Despite growing up in a poor, rural town, I have almost no social contact with blue collar workers in my daily adult life. This book helped me wrap my mind around the divisions between the “professional class” of white collar workers and their “working class” blue collar counterparts. It explores th......more

Goodreads review by Jules on March 22, 2014

If you've never read Ehrenreich before (Nickled and Dimed, Bait and Switch), you're in for a sociological treat. In this particular work, she visits a new understanding of the class system in America, using her heydey of the 60s as part backdrop, part hammer to crack the belief systems of class deni......more