Barbara Ehrenreich was inspired to write her classic expose of low-wage life in America by punitive 1990s welfare laws. Today ...
NEW YORK — Barbara Ehrenreich, the author, activist and self-described “myth buster” who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, ...
Those names might not be familiar to all Americans, but their recent accomplishments amount to a potential sea change in labor rights. As union organizers or advocates for better work conditions at ...
All Barbara Ehrenreich wanted was a white-collar job at 50K a year plus bennies. (Don’t we all?) In Bait and Switch this veteran social critic uses the same undercover tactics as in her best-selling ...
Love and gold / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The nanny dilemma / Susan Cheever -- The care crisis in the Philippines : children and transnational families in the new global economy / Rhacel Salazar ...
The most harrowing chapter of Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Living with a Wild God, isn’t the one that describes her mystical experience. It’s the final chapter, “The Nature of the Other,” where she ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Ehrenreich, the ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adia Harvey Wingfield, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Those ...