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Looking Towards the Future
Interview about class, reporting, the coronavirus, and socialism
Interview on why Sanders is her choice for 2020, the joys of radical politics and why there’s no time to wait on capitalism to solve the climate crisis
How do we recognize the similarities between people of different class positions without papering over the differences?
Fifteen years ago Barbara Ehrenreich interviewed Michael Albert about participatory economics. The exchange largely addressed matters of allocation, participatory planning versus markets, so we rerun it to accompany the series of essays on socialism now appearing on ZNet
Barbara Ehrenreich has written extensively about the impossibility of getting by with low-wage work in the U.S. and the everyday indignities workers in the U.S. face on the job. In her best-selling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Ehrenreich wrote about her yearlong experience of going undercover as a low-wage worker. Read more…
New kinds of work require new ideas — and new ways of organizing
The Great Die-Off of America’s Blue Collar Whites
Hear the name Barbara Ehrenreich and it may not ring any bells. Hear the words “Nickel and Dimed,’’ and you’ll likely remember. That’s the name of a best-selling book and she’s the journalist who wrote it, going undercover waiting tables, cleaning toilets, selling for Wal-Mart and caring for nursing home patients to experience and Read more…
She studied to be a scientist but ended up an outspoken journalist, activist and best-selling author. Barbara Ehrenreich writes about poverty in America and the growing divide between the haves and have-nots as well as health care issues, the welfare system, women's rights and the cult of positive thinking that surrounds some cancer patients. From Read more…