Cheap Motels And a Hotplate: An Economist's Travelogue - Couverture souple

Yates, Michael D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1583671439 ISBN 13 : 9781583671436

Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2007

Synopsis

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight.
Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado.
Cheap Motels and a Hotplate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and write for and with the working class and not just about it. He has helped organize labor unions and has written extensively about them. His most recent book is Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review Press).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1583671439
• ISBN 13: 9781583671436
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible