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Barbara Ehrenreich

Geburtstag: 26. August 1941
Andere Namen: バーバラ・エーレンライク,Барбара Еренрайх

Barbara Ehrenreich ist eine US-amerikanische Sachbuch-Autorin und journalistische Kolumnistin.

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„Wenn du deine Zeit stundenweise verkaufst, bekommst du das Entscheidende nicht gleich mit: daß nämlich das, was du verkaufst, in Wirklichkeit dein Leben ist.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Arbeit poor. Unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft. Aus dem Englischen von Niels Kadritzke. München: Kunstmann, 2001. ISBN 3888972833

„Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich

„What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

„No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
"Family Values," The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed (1991)

„In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich

„A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

„In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap — as measured by the pay — that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Ch. 2: Scrubbing in Maine (p. 60)

„The appropriate emotion is shame — shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The "working poor," as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Evaluation (p. 221)

„At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Evaluation (p. 195)

„If low-wage workers do not always behave in an economically rational way, that is, as free agents within a capitalist democracy, it is because they dwell in a place that is neither free nor in any way democratic. When you enter the low-wage workplace — and many of the medium-wage workplaces as well — you check your civil liberties at the door, leave America and all it supposedly stands for behind, and learn to zip your lips for the duration of the shift. The consequences of this routine surrender go beyond the issues of wages and poverty. We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Evaluation (p. 210)

„I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31)

„Maybe it's low-wage work in general that has the effect of making you feel like a pariah. When I watch TV over my dinner at night, I see a world in which almost everyone makes $15 an hour or more, and I'm not just thinking of the anchor folks. The sitcoms and dramas are about fashion designers or schoolteachers or lawyers, so it's easy for a fast-food worker or nurse's aide to conclude that she is an anomaly — the only one, or almost the only one, who hasn't been invited to the party. And in a sense she would be right: the poor have disappeared from the culture at large, from its political rhetoric and intellectual endeavors as well as from its daily entertainment. Even religion seems to have little to say about the plight of the poor, if that tent revival was a fair sample. The moneylenders have finally gotten Jesus out of the temple.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Ch. 2: Scrubbing in Maine (pp. 117-118)

„What these tests tell employers about potential employees is hard to imagine, since the "right" answers should be obvious to anyone who has ever encountered the principle of hierarchy and subordination. Do I work well with others? You bet, but never to the point where I would hesitate to inform on them for the slightest infraction. Am I capable of independent decision making? Oh yes, but I know better than to let this capacity interfere with a slavish obedience to orders. At The Maids, a housecleaning service, I am given something called the "Accutrac personality test," which warns at the beginning that "Accutrac has multiple measures which detect attempts to distort or 'psych out' the questionnaire." Naturally, I "never" find it hard "to stop moods of self-pity," nor do I imagine that others are talking about me behind my back or believe that "management and employees will always be in conflict because they have totally different sets of goals." The real function of these tests, I decide, is to convey information not to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information conveyed is always: You will have no secrets from us.“

— Barbara Ehrenreich
Ch. 2: Scrubbing in Maine (p. 59)

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