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	Barbara Ehrenreich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Alexander.
		Ehrenreich herself decided to study physics at Reed College, receiving her BA in 1963.
		She divorced Ehrenreich and in 1983 married Gary Stevenson, who was then working as a warehouse employee and later become a union organizer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Ehrenreich (728 words)

	Nickel and Dimed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ehrenreich later wrote a companion book, Bait and Switch (published September 2005), which discusses her attempt to find a white-collar job.
		During a lunch conversation with Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's, Ehrenreich proposes a journalistic approach to the effects of welfare reform, an infiltration of the "unskilled" work market; unbeknownst to her, she would be the one investigating.
		Ehrenreich insisted on living alone, although she could have saved money by sharing a room and splitting rent with other low-wage workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed (1110 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Diming Truth by Michael Tremoglie
		Ehrenreich bona fides in the field of Marxism are evinced throughout her illustrious career as possibly the most respected female “intellectual” in modern academia.
		Ehrenreich, in her late fifties, and a resident of affluent Key West, Florida, went to work as a maid, a nursing home assistant and a Wal-Mart clerk.
		Ehrenreich’s dubious claim that government assistance is not available for people in her income bracket strains credulity.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9033 (1015 words)

	Event Archive: Barbara Ehrenreich - Commonwealth Club
		Ehrenreich: Any increase is good in that it lifts things up for people who are even up at the $8 an hour level; there's an upward pressure from a raise in the minimum wage.
		Ehrenreich: There was a big campaign around this, but the belief many liberals shared is that a job is a ticket out of poverty.
		Ehrenreich: I was one of many people whose careers were interrupted in the late 1960s by the war in Vietnam.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/01/01-05ehrenreich-speech2.html (2852 words)

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		In addition to her work on economic themes, Ehrenreich is a historian and author of Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, which the New York Review of Books described as 'brilliant' and Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Metropolitan Books 2007).
		To answer her own questions, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted the highest-paying jobs she was offered.
		Ehrenreich's hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of the working world brilliantly limns low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety and surprising generosity.
	www.creativewell.com /ehrenreich.html (836 words)

	WorkingForChange-Tomdispatch interview: Barbara Ehrenreich
		Ehrenreich: What I was thinking about then was the fear of intergenerational falling, the fear a lot of upper-middle class people have that their children will not get into the same class, because you can't just bequeath your class status to them.
		Ehrenreich: This was something I first wrote about in 1997 in an essay in the Nation which they entitled, "Confessions of a Recovering Statist." I talked about the shift of government, at the end of the Clinton years, away from the helping functions and toward the military, penitentiaries, law enforcement.
		Ehrenreich: My son went to a Minutemen gathering in the southwest and the fascinating thing was that a lot of the leaders talked a very big anti-corporate line: The corporations are crushing us, we're the real Americans, and so forth.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=20917 (5360 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ehrenreich tackles the work force again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote acerbic commentary on wealth and poverty from the comfort of her home, until an assignment from her editor at Harper's magazine forced her to explore firsthand how millions of Americans live on minimum wage.
		Barbara Ehrenreich spent 10 months and $6,000 trying to get a white collar job as part of her research for Bait and Switch.
		This time, she used her birth name, Barbara Alexander (Ehrenreich is her first husband's name; she was married and divorced twice), and a plausible but doctored resume.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-09-08-ehrenreich-book_x.htm (891 words)

	Class Warrior: Barbara Ehrenreich's Singular Crusade
		For years, Ehrenreich wrote pugilistic, acerbic commentary for many leading publications — including Time, where she had a monthly column in the 1990s — but those pieces were usually written from the comfort of her desk; she was an armchair commentator on wealth and poverty, subjects that were never far from her mind.
		Ehrenreich moved to Charlottesville in 2001 to be near her thirty-two-year-old daughter, Rosa, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and her granddaughter, Anna, now two.
		Ehrenreich's mother, who was rather more political than her husband, offered her children two bits of wisdom: "Never vote Republican and never cross a union picket line." Both her parents drank heavily, and her mother was plagued by depression.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2003/6/ehren-sherman.asp (4170 words)

	Hexapedia - Barbara Ehrenreich (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is a social critic and essayist.
		Ehrenreich attended Reed College, and later obtained a PhD in biology from The Rockefeller University in New York City.
		Ehrenreich has also written for the New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, Salon.com, LewRockwell.com and other publications.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Barbara_Ehrenreich (273 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Barbara Ehrenreich: Best-Selling Leftist by Kimberly Schuld
		On the heels of last year’s assignment, it is worth noting that Barbara Ehrenreich is a well-known socialist and the choice of her book over the thousands of other (and better) options available to university officials could lead one to wonder about her selection.
		As Ehrenreich continues, “If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.” In Ehrenreich’s worldview, that means full Socialism and the abolition of Capitalism.
		Ehrenreich uses her brief forays into the world of real workers to again rail against Capitalism, Republicans, religious Americans, and corporations in general while she weeps for an expansion of the welfare state.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10461 (1855 words)

	Articles by Barbara Ehrenreich
		Barbara Ehrenreich is a writer, activist and novelist who appears in publications ranging from the Mother Jones to Z to Time.
		The New Creationism: Biology Under Attack with Janet McIntosh 6-9-97 and Confessions of a Recovering Statist 11-17-97 She was one of the first rotating columnists for the Nation's Media Matter section.
		Ehrenreich was interviewed by Utne Reader about her Media Diet in the March/April 1998 issue.
	www.well.com /user/srhodes/ehrenreich.html (969 words)

	Barbara Ehrenreich to Give Reading
		When Barbara Ehrenreich gave up her multiroom home and sit-down writing job to become an unskilled laborer, she vowed not to fall back on her education, to take the highest-paying job offered to her, and to accept the cheapest available lodging.
		Ehrenreich is the author of Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes From a Decade of Greed, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class, and eight other books.
		Ehrenreich shared the National magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting in 1980, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1987–88, and has received honorary degrees from Reed College and the State University of New York at Old Westbury.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/083002/reading.shtml (781 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, Paperback, REPRINT
		We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's working poor so clearly and directly, and conveying with it a deep moral outrage and a finely textured sense of lives as lived.
		While Barbara could give an account of what it was like to work at these retailers and resteraunts she failed to find the true hardships in the lives of the working poor.
		Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=53K4A35BS5&isbn=0805063897 (833 words)

	WorkingForChange-BuzzFlash interview: Barbara Ehrenreich 4.11.05
		Barbara Ehrenreich is highly educated and enjoys a comfortable lifestyle ordinarily, but in 2001, she walked away from it to take a close-up and personal look at the struggles of the working poor.
		Barbara Ehrenreich: That's the question about so many things -- the tax cuts for the rich, the coming federal budget, which is full of cuts in almost any program that has helped poor and working-class people, like Medicaid.
		Barbara Ehrenreich: That is the value of this form of journalism as opposed to just interviewing people.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=18867 (1898 words)

	Barbara Ehrenreich
		Barbara Ehrenreich, in her book Nickel and Dimed, stated some startling statistics on just who is really working for less than a living wage, while defining...
		Or so Barbara Ehrenreich believes when she writes of a quiet, subliminal prejudice that is caused by statistics that prove the fewer numbers of fls in high...
		Prejudice Barbara Ehrenreich believes when she writes of a quiet, subliminal prejudice that is caused by statistics that prove the fewer numbers of fls in...
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	Barbara Ehrenreich - Salon
		Barbara Ehrenreich set out to write a "Nickel and Dimed" for the white-collar worker -- but everything fell apart when she couldn't nab a corporate job.
		Barbara Ehrenreich spent two years as a waitress, maid and Wal-Mart clerk, trying to find out how America's working poor make it.
		Barbara Ehrenreich on how all-conquering capitalism has turned Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" into a glossy adornment that goes with most decorating schemes.
	dir.salon.com /topics/barbara_ehrenreich/index.html (288 words)

	Barbara's Blog: Could You Afford to be Poor?
		Barbara, your heart was in the right place, but part of what made "Nickled and Dimed" so annoying to me was your evident cluelessness about how actual poor people live.
		I think what Barbara is trying to say with her books is that there are a large number of people who are poor who shouldn't be.
		Ehrenreich's lack of street smarts (not using thrift stores, garage sales, dumpster diving, outlets, etc.) made her experience a little harder than it would have been for someone who grew up in poverty.
	ehrenreich.blogs.com /barbaras_blog/2006/07/could_you_affor.html (15942 words)

	Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
		"Barbara Ehrenreich is the Thorstein Veblen of the twenty-first century.
		To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce.
		Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller); Fear o Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and eight other books.
	www.henryholt.com /holt/nickelanddimed.htm (682 words)

	Q&A: Barbara Ehrenreich's Righteous Rage - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
		Ehrenreich’s best-selling “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by In America” (Metropolitan) is a record of her life in several states as she tried to survive on a string of minimum-wage jobs.
		Ehrenreich, who is working on a new book about unemployment, due out in September of next year, recently spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Brian Braiker about the Puffin/Nation award and how she went from earning a Ph.D. in biology to being an activist journalist.
		Barbara Ehrenreich: Well it’s like a big slap on the back, which is nice coming after a big slap in the face that was the election.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6533102/site/newsweek (1477 words)

	Term Papers On Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel Dimed, Research Papers, Essays
		In Barbara Ehrenreich’s book, Nickel and Dimed, it is discussed that millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages.
		With that in mind, in 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich made a decision to join them and tell about her experiences as being one of them.
		After working in independent enterprises or small franchises, Barbara Ehrenreich decided, as part of her experiment in low-income living, to move onto working for one of the largest franchise chains in America, that of Wal-Mart.
	www.essaysportal.com /essay/barbara%20ehrenreich%20nickel%20dimed.html (333 words)

	The HooK: HOTSEAT- Ehren-rights: Activist's work is never done
		Barbara Ehrenreich had to cancel an interview because she's dashing off to a rally of striking grad students at NYU who want union recognition.
		Ehrenreich is leaving Charlottesville and moving to New Rochelle, New York, not so much to be closer to the NYU grad students as to follow her daughter's household.
		She leaves an indelible memory: Ehrenreich was the keynote speaker for a Junior League $85-a-head fundraiser at Farmington Country Club earlier this year.
	www.readthehook.com /stories/2006/05/25/hotseatehren.aspx (785 words)

	Amazon.com: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America: Books: Barbara Ehrenreich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		With her characteristic wry wit and her unabashedly liberal bent, Ehrenreich brings the invisible poor out of hiding and, in the process, the world they inhabit--where civil liberties are often ignored and hard work fails to live up to its reputation as the ticket out of poverty.
		Barbara Ehrenreich spent time in Key West, Maine, and Minnesota holding down jobs as a waitress, nursing home aide, cleaning woman, and Wall-Mart "associate." She attempted to live on the wages these jobs paid--without drawing on her skills as a PhD, author, or lecturer.
		Barbara Ehrenreich's adoption of an unassuming disguise provides her readers with a dramatic portrayal of minimal income low level jobs.
	www.amazon.com /Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/0805063897 (3413 words)

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		She was enthused in part by the oratory enclosing welfare reform, which promised that any job could be the ticket to a better life.
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	Interview Barbara Ehrenreich
		Now, author and lecturer Ehrenreich has become an advocate for the forgotten in an America that favors corporations over workers, and the haves over the have-nots.
		Barbara Ehrenreich: First remember that the trend holds that people who are poorer vote Democratic, compared to people who are richer.
		Barbara Ehrenreich: "Bait and Switch," and the tentative subtitle is "The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream."
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/05/04/int05015.html (1884 words)

	Barbara Ehrenreich
		Barbara Ehrenreich is by training a research biologist who holds a Ph.D. in that area.
		Ehrenreich is now recognized as a political essayist and social critic who speaks and writes about a wide range of subjects, from poverty to inequality to capital punishment.
		Further biographical information about Barbara Ehrenreich, framed as an interview, can be located on the Literary Nonfiction Web site at the University of Oregon.
	wps.ablongman.com /long_muller_ttp_1/0,9686,1615363-,00.html (265 words)

	Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed": Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There's no intermediate point in the process in which you confront the potential employer as a free agent, entitled to cut her own deal..." Ehrenreich's insights are sharp as she itemizes the tricks that the bosses use to keep workers from exercising their bargaining power.
		I did not even loathe the book because of the strong pains Barbara Ehrenreich took to demonstrate that she was not one of them.
		Because all these are invisible to the Barbara Ehrenreich (see "When Government Gets Mean: Confessions of a Recovering Statist, _The Nation_ (November 17, 1997)), she can write that it is time for America's left to ditch the government.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /movable_type/archives/000486.html (4495 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Barbara Ehrenreich
		Ehrenreich's undercover investigation into low-wage America—the world of the working poor—struck a chord with readers across the country, as she struggled to pay rent, buy clothes (even at Wal-Mart, one of her places of employment), or eat anything other than fast food on the meager pay from minimum-wage jobs.
		She legally changed her name to Barbara Alexander, lined up people to support her new résumé as a public relations professional, and plunged into the job-transition industry, an eerie no-man's land filled with unscrupulous (and ultimately unhelpful) job coaches, boot camps, and networking prayer breakfasts.
		Read it and weep—especially if you're a job-seeker." Barbara Ehrenreich's new book is as acerbic and witty as only she can be, but it is also chilling in its indictment of an incompetent, downsized, and overworked America.
	www.powells.com /authors/ehrenreich.html (4139 words)

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