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Nickel and Dimed at 25: Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic reveals the high cost of low-wage work

Last month, the ABC reported “rental affordability has hit a new low in Australia”. Already, low-wage workers in major cities face the burden of commuting to jobs they can’t afford to live near.

The Conversation

What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor

Teeth are one of the most visible markers of poverty: structural circumstances that are individually borne.

The Conversation

Soraya Chemaly says the idea of resilience elevates individuals over society. But she misrepresents how psychologists use it

Fifteen years ago, the great American activist and author Barbara Ehrenreich launched a broadside against what would soon become known as toxic positivity.

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Friday essay: what is 'time activism' – and why do we desperately need it?

When my daughter was in the early years of primary school, her class was asked what their parents’ hobbies were. My daughter piped up promptly with mine: “Reading, sleeping, and drinking wine.” This disclosure of my deficiencies — among the more well-adapted offerings of cycling, gardening, Pilates practice and marathon-running…

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On burning books (or book companies)

"It’s painful to see who has the ability to cancel out so much else that should truly matter"

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Barbara Ehrenreich obituary

American journalist and author of the bestselling Nickel and Dimed, her 2001 memoir of living undercover on the breadline

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Ehrenreich helped make inequality visible – her legacy lives on in a reinvigorated labor movement

Have you heard of Jaz Brisack, Liz Fong-Jones and Chris Smalls?

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Appreciation: Barbara Ehrenreich showed us how much it cost to be broke

Somebody has to grow and harvest the food in the fields. Somebody has to clean the carcasses, drive the trucks and unload the haul. Somebody has to process the food, prepare it, cook it, serve it. There's always somebody minding the register, stocking the shelves, wiping the counters, mopping the…

Los Angeles Times

'Nickel and Dimed' author Barbara Ehrenreich dies

Renowned American author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich died on September 1, 2022, her son Ben Ehrenreich announced on social media recently. She was 81. Sharing the news her son Ben, who is also a writer, posted on Twitter, "Sad news. Barbara Ehrenreich, my one and only mother, died on…

The Times of India

Barbara Ehrenreich never stopped trying to change the world

We’ve just lost one of the world’s finest writers about inequality and class – and the business of being alive in the United States today. Barbara Ehrenreich, best known for her “classic of social justice literature”, Nickel and Dimed, died on Thursday, aged 81.

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Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81

Writer of the 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed died on 1 September, her son announced

The Guardian - US

Barbara Ehrenreich, muckraking writer and activist, dies

Barbara Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, has died at age 81

The Independent UK

Are humans on the verge of ‘peace talks’ with the non-human world?

Covid-19 is a sharp reminder that our species could do with a bit of humility about its place in the natural order, says Barbara Ehrenreich, founding editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project

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