Unemployed, and Not Getting a Job Anytime Soon? Why Not Build a Better World? - by Barbara Ehrenreich
Unemployed, and Not Getting a Job Anytime Soon? Why Not Build a Better World?
In most parts of the world, mass unemployment brings the specter of mass social unrest. Not in the U.S., though, where 13 million people have accepted joblessness with nary a peep of protest. Many reasons -- from Prozac to Pentecostalism -- have been cited to explain American passivity in the face of economic violence. But the truth might be far simpler: In America, being unemployed doesn't mean you have nothing to do but run around burning police cars. Unemployment has been reconfigured as a new form of work.
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