Journalist, author and activist best known for her book "Nickel and Dimed"
Barbara Ehrenreich appears in the following:
Barbara Ehrenreich, 'Had I Known'
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Barbara Ehrenreich on Our Obsession with Aging
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Sexual Harassment Conversation Is Class-Skewed
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Guest Picks: Barbara Ehrenreich
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Barbara Ehrenreich was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about her book, Living With a Wild God. She also told us what she's been reading and watching (rock climbing, anyone?) and what her favorite comfort food is...
Barbara Ehrenreich on Mystical Experiences and the Search for Answers
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Barbara Ehrenreich recounts her quest—which began in childhood—to find "the Truth" about the universe and everything else. In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never written or spoken about it to anyone. Until now. In Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for Truth about Everything, she reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all.
End of War: Chris Hedges and Barbara Ehrenreich
Monday, February 27, 2012
Chris Hedges, former war correspondent, senior fellow at The Nation Institute, and author of several books including War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning and Death of the Liberal Class, and Barbara Ehrenreich, author of several books including Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passion of War and Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, discuss why cultures are drawn to war.
Nickel and Dimed Again
Monday, August 08, 2011
Author Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the new afterword to her 2001 bestselling book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, and how it relates to today's bleak economic picture.
Going Negative
Friday, December 31, 2010
Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist, activist and author of Nickel and Dimed and Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America, discusses the current mood in the country and what she sees as an unwarranted obsession with optimism.
Going Negative
Monday, October 25, 2010
Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist, activist and author of Nickel and Dimed and Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America, discusses the current mood in the country and what she sees as an unwarranted obsession with optimism.
Cloward-Piven
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Frances Fox Piven , activist and professor at the City University of New York and former president of the American Sociological Association, and Barbara Ehrenreich, writer, journalist, activist, and author of Nickel & Dimed, talk about the 1970's anti-poverty activism now referred to by Glenn Beck and others as the "Cloward-Piven Strategy."
Science, Emotion Clash Over Breast Cancer Screenings
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich on the Dark Side of Positivity
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Bright-Sided
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Projections: Women in the Workplace
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
"Woman of ...
Seize the Moment
Friday, March 06, 2009
EVENT Meltdown panel discussion tonight at 8PM at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
Rotten Tomatoes
Friday, March 06, 2009
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