The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America - Tapa dura

Brook, Daniel

 
9780805080650: The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America
Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 0805080651 ISBN 13: 9780805080650
Editorial: Owl Books, 2007

Sinopsis

What is lost when the best and the brightest are corralled into corporate America, in the debut of a searing, rousing social critic
 
In this provocative, witty, and revealing polemic, Daniel Brook argues that the exploding income gap—a product of the conservative ascendance—is systematically dismantling the American dream, as debt-laden, well-educated young people are torn between their passions and the pressure to earn six-figure incomes.

Rising education, housing, and health-care costs have made it virtually impossible for all but the corporate elite to enjoy what were once considered middle-class comforts. Thousands are afflicted with a wrenching choice: take up residence on America’s financial and social margins or sell out. And it’s not just impoverished teachers and social workers, struggling to pay their rent, who are hurt. From the activist who works to give others a living wage but isn’t paid one himself, to the universal health-care advocate who becomes a management consultant for Big Pharma, Brook presents a damning indictment of the economic and political landscape that traps young Americans.
 
When the best and the brightest cannot afford to serve the public good, Brook asks, what are we selling out: an individual’s career, or the very promise of American democracy?

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca de los autores

Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper’s, Dissent, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe, among other
publications. Brook was a finalist in the 2003 Livingston Awards for Young
Journalists and won the 2000 Rolling Stone College Journalist Competition while a student at Yale. He lives in Philadelphia.


Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper's, Dissent, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe, among other
publications. Brook was a finalist in the 2003 Livingston Awards for Young
Journalists and won the 2000 Rolling Stone College Journalist Competition while a student at Yale. He lives in Philadelphia.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Owl Books
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0805080651
ISBN 13 
9780805080650
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
274
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
GS1 Slovakia
https://www.gs1sk.org

Nantersk� 23
Žilina
010 08
Eslovaquia

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780805088014: THE TRAP: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0805088016 ISBN 13:  9780805088014
Editorial: Griffin, 2008
Tapa blanda