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Since the eviction of Occupy protestors from encampments in many cities throughout the world, smaller and more targeted occupations have continued. Workers in a Chicago factory occupied - with the support of their union - to protest layoffs. Teachers and students in Tucson staged a walkout to protest the removal of Chicano history books from the curriculum. Home foreclosures were disrupted, even avoided, by direct community action. But what does it all mean? What do we talk about when we talk about "revolution", if we talk about it at all?

Many Americans, holding fast to the American Dream and the promise of equal opportunity, claim that social class doesn't matter. Yet the ways we talk and dress, our interactions with authority figures, the degree of trust we place in strangers, our religious beliefs, our achievements, our senses of morality and of ourselves all are marked by social class, a powerful factor affecting every domain of life.

America’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the 20th century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world’s greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream: that if you worked hard and followed the rules you would prosper in America, and your children would enjoy a better life than yours. Incredibly, however, for more than 30 years, government and big business in America have conspired to roll back the American dream....

Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles - Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky has it all. But he's about to lose it to the IRS unless he can pull off one more deal. A stellar cast performs this hilarious send-up of modern-day Hollywood.

These stories are about the people who make our lives run every day—and yet we barely think of them. Laskas spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a California landfill, an Arizona gun shop, the cab of a long-haul truck in Iowa, and the stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders. All are part of hidden America, and you will be amazed by what Laskas tells you about them.

It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! confirms what we have all suspected: Washington and Wall Street have really screwed things up for the average American. Work has been devalued. Education costs are out of sight. Effort and ambition have never been so scantily rewarded. Political guru James Carville and pollster extraordinaire Stan Greenberg argue that our political parties must admit their failures and the electorate must reclaim its voice, because taking on the wealthy and the privileged is not class warfare—it is a matter of survival.

Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W. H. Auden -- to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Friend noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics.

Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class.

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money in the past 25 years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives.

We are all fascinated by them - that enigmatic class of people often referred to as the rich. With all the emphasis on the rich and famous in America, it seems we would know everything about them. In reality, very few of us truly understand those who make up the very wealthiest Americans - those with liquid assets of $5 million or more. What is this new class of people, and how did they get that way?

In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century—and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it is the subject of this book.

Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy - but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged.

Ripartenza, rischi e paure: Paura di ripartire di Maria Novella De Luca; "Aiutavamo gli altri ma ora i poveri siamo diventati noi" di Massimo Calandri e Erica Manna; Il contagio della povertà di Chiara Saraceno; Milano, la città non si fida e i tram restano vuoti "Ancora troppi rischi" di Brunella Giovara; Mercato e caffè al bar. Ritorno a Codogno dove tutto cominciò di Carlo Annovazzi; Fuori c'è un mondo che non è cambiato. Io per ora non esco: ho paura di noi di Natalia Aspesi.

Sanremo 2020, dalle polemiche al grande successo: Elettra Lamborghini: "Esuberante io? In realtà sono noiosa", di Silvia Fumarola; Essere giovani a Sanremo, di Gino Castaldo; Ricchi e Poveri, se a Sanremo scoppia la pace, di Marco Mensurati; Amadeus e Fiorello, un Sanremo per due, di Silvia Fumarola; Sanremo, il successo della nostalgia, di Francesco Merlo; Il dopo festival: perché mi pento di non aver visto Sanremo, di Natalia Aspesi

Sanremo, il festival della paura. La kermesse canora e le immancabili polemiche in sette articoli di Repubblica: Dal governo ai vertici Rai, il lungo assedio a Fabio Fazio, di Goffredo De Marchis; Se all'Ariston sbarca un mostro a due teste, di Gianni Santoro; Un festival bizarro: più qualità ma meno spettacolo, di Gino Castaldo; Sanremo e le giurie: una, cento, mille Italie non così distanti, di Gino Castaldo; Il popolo, le élite e il festival della paura, di Natalia Aspesi; Mahmood: "Ma quale razzismo, la mia generazione è cresciuta rispettando le diversità", di Carlo Moretti.

Baricco, la rabbia e le élite in gioco. Il clima politico e sociale italiano, analizzato da due grandi penne, in due articoli di Repubblica: La guerra all'élite e la politica al tempo del Game di Alessandro Baricco; Dietro la rivolta dei Comuni la paura di una nuova bomba sociale di Alessandra Ziniti.

Kaum eine Gruppe innerhalb des Arbeitsmarktes hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten einen so rasanten Anstieg des Lohnes erlebt wie sie - die Konzernchefs. Wie kann das sein? Begründet wird dies damit, dass der Markt nunmal die Gehälter vorgibt. Wirtschaftsexperte Dirk Schütz weiß, dass das so nicht ganz richtig ist, und dass hinter der Fassade nichts weiter als bloße Gier steckt. Anhand von Beispielen deutscher Großkonzerne zeigt er auf, wie das Managergehalt zum Hort des Drachen werden konnte - und was man dagegen tun kann.

"Min uimodståelige mand" er en vittig og personlig beretning om manglen på ligestilling i en tid, hvor #MeToo-bølgen forandrer, hvad politikere ikke har magtet, og kvindebevægelser altid har drømt om. Dokumentarist, forfatter og feminist Mette Korsgaard opsøger forskere og eksperter for at finde en forklaring på, hvorfor Danmark halter bagud på ligestillingsbarometeret, hvorfor vi ikke orker at tale om det, og hvorfor vi alle i bund og grund er mandschauvinister. Vidste du for eksempel, at mødre til små drenge med stor nøjagtighed kan vurdere, hvor stejlt deres børn kan kravle, mens mødre til piger ofte undervurderer pigernes evner?

Deutschland im Jahr 2019. Billig, konsumfreundlich und auf Nur-nicht-drüber-Nachdenken getrimmt. Gewerkschaften gelten als unsexy, faire Bezahlung ist kein Thema. Dabei gibt es immer mehr Menschen, deren Einkommen nicht zum Leben reicht. Investigativ-Autorin Anette Dowideit nimmt die Löhne und Gehälter verschiedener Branchen unter die Lupe und fragt: Wer ist eigentlich noch Mittelschicht? Ehemals angesehene Berufe rutschen in Richtung Prekariat ab: Pilot, Stewardess, Lehrer, Krankenschwester.

Warum unsere Gesellschaft Arbeitslose verachtet und sie dennoch braucht. Faul. Ungebildet. Desinteressiert. Selber schuld. Als Kind von zwei Langzeitarbeitslosen weiß Anna Mayr, wie falsch solche Vorurteile sind. Früher schämte sie sich, dass ihre Eltern keine Jobs haben. Heute weiß sie, dass unsere Gesellschaft Menschen wie sie braucht: als drohendes Bild des Elends. In ihrem kämpferischen, thesenstarken Buch zeigt Mayr, warum wir die Geschichte der Arbeit neu denken müssen und wie eine Welt aussehen könnte, in der wir die Elenden nicht mehr brauchen, um unseren Leben Sinn zu geben.