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 ...

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 ...

Ehrenreich’s vicious, hilarious and striking tour de force of American culture and society today addresses a range of issues from class warfare to health care, higher education to feminism to ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Barbara Ehrenreich is an Author with 36 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1989 Booknotes as an Editor for the Ms. Magazine. The year with the most ...

Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich has written about living as a low-wage worker (Nickel and Dimed) and looking for a white-collar job (Bait and Switch). She spoke recently with TIME’s Jeremy Caplan ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...