Barbara Ehrenreich

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Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author of sixteen previous books, including the bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harpers and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time Magazine.

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Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version)

On Turning Poverty into an American Crime
By Barbara Ehrenreich

I completed the manuscript for Nickel and Dimed in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity. Technology innovators and venture capitalists were acquiring sudden fortunes, buying up McMansions like the ones I had cleaned in Maine and much larger. Even secretaries in some hi-tech firms were striking it rich with their stock options. T...

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Books by Barbara Ehrenreich

Average rating: 3.51 · 111,250 ratings · 5,278 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.51 avg rating — 103,097 ratings — published 2001 — 31 editions	My rating:
	Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America 3.58 avg rating — 2,527 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream 3.30 avg rating — 2,368 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	My rating:
	This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation 3.41 avg rating — 724 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English 3.87 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich (Editor), Arlie Russell Hochschild (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 441 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English 3.94 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1970 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy 3.76 avg rating — 272 ratings — 15 editions	My rating:
	Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War 3.84 avg rating — 161 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class 3.72 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich

tags: feminism , gender , men , women , women-s-liberation

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“I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican. ”
― Barbara Ehrenreich

tags: humor , politics , republicans

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