She's got guts. Barbara Ehrenreich bravely wades into the river of pop culture, eagerly swims through it, and comes out the other side able to explain it all in clear and clever prose. With the ever-surprising gifts of a true satirist, she takes on everything from gender wars to shooting wars to the obsession with …
Nickel and Dimed: On Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and …
Barbara Ehrenreich is an acclaimed social critic on both sides of the Atlantic, renowned for her trenchant, witty polemics, her pieces of journalism, and her trademark intelligence. She writes with unparalleled precision, insight and a rationalist's unwavering gaze.But in middle age, she rediscovered the journal she …