Who is Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (, AIR-ən-rike; née Alexander; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.Early life
Ehrenreich was born to Isabelle (née Oxley) and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town". In an interview on C-SPAN, she charac...
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- If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
- At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
- At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
- There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
- We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Willshetterly: " ...the problem is not classism, the problem is class itself." —barbara ehrenreichPetreraleigh: i got native history, i got barbara ehrenreich, i got some king...i will be feeling bad about not having read all this stuff for months. i can't wait
Joshglove: a lot of books have been banned this week; i recommend— -the color purple by alice walker -looking for alaska by john green -the hate you give by angie thomas -the giver by lois lowry -nickel and dimed by barbara ehrenreich -simon vs. the homosapien agenda by becky albertalli
Broken__america: in her now classic book, "nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in america," barbara ehrenreich, went undercover as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of american prosperity.
Billjank: 12/10. only note is that if i make it past my two score and ten, i hope i’ve got the courage to embrace this.
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