Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class  
published September 1990 by Perennial
binding Paperback
isbn 0060973331   (isbn13: 9780060973339)
pages 304
literary awards 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
description A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two ...more
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12-30-06



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Marci
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04/22/08

I'm surprised that I didn't read Fear of Falling a long time ago, but I was already familiar with many of its ideas which points to its pervasive influence since publication in 1989. Barbara Ehrenreich provides an overview of the history of America's middle class from the 1950s through the 1980s centered around the thesis that the middle class has suffered such severe setbacks to its assumed level of financial security over these decades that its members now constantly live with a "fear of ...more
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i don't normally read non-fiction because it makes my brain hurt but this book, like all her others, is really easy to read. it's also really fucking smart and informative. and for someone raised middle class it's pretty awesome to read about yourself since middle class is always presented as so normal as to never need to be talked about. and that can make you kind of myopic and crazy, espescially when you start to wonder, "why the fuck am i so freaked out about money all the time?"
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