Barbara Ehrenreich
American author and political activist
American author and activist who wrote 21 books, including Nickel and Dimed, her account of living on minimum-wage jobs.
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American Born 1941 in Butte, United States Died 2022
About Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author, columnist and essayist. She was born in Butte, Montana, on August 26, 1941, and died on September 1, 2022. She held a prominent place in the Democratic Socialists of America in the 1980s and early 1990s. She wrote 21 books and received a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize. She is best known for Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, published in 2001, which recounts a three-month experiment in getting by on low-paid jobs. Her books in our catalog include Dancing in the Streets and Natural Causes.