Stories by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine. She lives in Florida.
Hiasl, a 26-year old Austrian-based chimpanzee, is petitioning the courts for human status, and let me be the first to extend him a warm welcome to our species.
Posted on May 11, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Is a college degree really a sign of competence? Or is it chiefly a signal to employers that you've mastered the ability to obey and conform?
Posted on May 2, 2007, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Not so long ago seniority was rewarded with higher pay and other perks. But that higher pay now carries a lethal risk, as Circuit City has just demonstrated.
Posted on Apr 10, 2007, Source: AlterNet
With Target and Wal-Mart acting as though they are entitled to spy on, stalk and imprison their own employees, we are on the road to a full-scale workplace dictatorship.
Posted on Apr 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet
It's bad enough to learn that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has returned -- now we have to worry about what ugly things the right-wing and mainstream media are saying.
Posted on Mar 30, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Home Depot salesclerks get about $8-$10 an hour for lifting heavy objects and running around the floor all day with no tips while its departed CEO got $210 million bonus for sinking the value of the company's stock.
Posted on Mar 23, 2007, Source: The Progressive
George Orwell's "1984" is already here and it's called the American workplace, but finally there's a law in the works that might make jobs livable.
Posted on Mar 12, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Let’s face it, JetBlue and the rest of you: Anything more than three hours on the ground isn’t an airline delay, it’s a hostage situation.
Posted on Feb 24, 2007, Source: AlterNet
It's not enough these days for employees to slave to the bone -- workplace motivators are pushing us to squeeze a smile out of our hefty workloads.
Posted on Feb 10, 2007, Source: AlterNet
A visit to Washington state, which has the highest minimum wage in the country, reveals a booming economy with none of the problems Big Business had been warning about.
Posted on Jan 23, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Let's face it: Christmas is not the exclusive property of those who think God came to earth 2000 years ago as a baby in Bethlehem.
Posted on Dec 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Most Democrats say their hands are tied when it comes to fixing health care. But they've also said that about the minimum wage, and this election voters proved them wrong.
Posted on Nov 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
In the 24 states that voted to raise their minimum wages, it just got a bit more worthwhile to get up for work each morning.
Posted on Nov 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
CEOs use shame and intimidation to keep workers "productive," but the real shame is on executives who make eight-figure incomes while their lowest-paid employees trudge between food banks.
Posted on Oct 27, 2006, Source: The Progressive
Conservatives say struggling Americans are just too dumb to grasp the wonders of our 'knowledge-based economy.'
Posted on Sep 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Who's really to blame for Wal-Mart's sagging sales -- Democrats, Korean fruit vendors or unions?
Posted on Aug 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The film's bleak vision of a world divided between shanty-towns and trailer parks at one end, and unimaginable luxury at the other, is not far off the mark.
Posted on Aug 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Giving one person power over others is like a giving a 3-year-old a hose: not everyone will get soaked, but the chances of coming out dry are slender.
Posted on Aug 5, 2006, Source: The Progressive
From food prices to auto insurance, when did poverty get so expensive?
Posted on Jul 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
While Muslim women are being stuffed into burkas, American post-feminists are trying to stuff their feet into stilettos.
Posted on Jul 10, 2006, Source: Huffington Post
There are quite a few surprising -- and surprisingly viable -- alternatives to Bush's marriage-minded anti-poverty program.
Posted on Jun 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
It's just not possible to be a responsible parent or spouse if your work leaves you with barely enough time to shower.
Posted on Mar 21, 2006, Source: The Progressive
In an excerpt from her new book 'Bait and Switch,' the author of 'Nickel and Dimed' explores the dubious industry of career coaches, intended to help frustrated job-seekers find their true callings.
Posted on Sep 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A sustained and serious effort to gain human rights for women worldwide could be the start of a brand new approach to fighting terrorism.
Posted on May 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
An excerpt from the
Start Making Sense section The Culture War.
Posted on Apr 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
There's no reason to be stuck with a nationality that doesn't reflect the real you! Apply now for a country appropriate to your personal tastes and values!
Posted on Jan 4, 2005, Source: The Progressive
For the next four years and well beyond, liberals and progressives will need to emulate the original Christians, who stood against imperial Rome with their bodies, their hearts and their souls.
Posted on Nov 16, 2004, Source: The Nation
We need a plan of action for the all-too-likely event that the election is determined to be tainted.
Posted on Sep 29, 2004, Source: The Progressive
The sight of women soldiers gleefully participating in the torture of Iraqi detainees taught this feminist a difficult but important lesson: A uterus is no substitute for a conscience.
Posted on May 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Frontline battle troops earn less than $16,000 a year. So when the Bush administration hurts the working poor, you can count the troops among them.
Posted on Apr 5, 2004, Source: The Progressive
Hospitals are increasingly resorting to brass knuckle tactics to collect overdue bills from patients -- even relying on the police and the threat of arrest.
Posted on Feb 5, 2004, Source: The Progressive
The author of an expose on the working poor in America is denounced as an 'enemy of the American family.' Welcome to the Bible Belt.
Posted on Aug 4, 2003, Source: The Progressive
Bush describes a utopia of nationalized oil and universal health care. But only for Iraq.
Posted on May 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
War is too complex and collective an activity to be accounted for by any warlike instinct lurking within the individual psyche.
Posted on Apr 10, 2003, Source: The Progressive
If the idea is to topple headstrong, potentially roguish leaders who have the means of mass destruction at their fingertips, why not Pakistan, North Korea, India or Sharon's belligerent Israel?
Posted on Oct 16, 2002, Source: The Progressive
The decades-old claim that a low fat diet is healthier is not only misleading but also plays into Puritanical notions of self indulgence and deprivation.
Posted on Aug 20, 2002, Source: The Progressive
When the powerful begin to act irresponsibly, it's the responsibility of the rest of us to take their power away.
Posted on Jul 24, 2002, Source: The Progressive
Don't joke about Bush's policies, don't joke about CEO salaries, and in America 2002 -- aka The Security Zone -- especially don't joke about al Qaeda at the airport.
Posted on Apr 2, 2002, Source: The Progressive
Why do Muslim fundamentalists hate women? Perhaps because of the particular threat to men posed by globalization.
Posted on Nov 30, 2001, Source: The Progressive
There is a major glitch in the Bush administration's faith-based grant initiative: the U.S. lacks a uniform legal definition of "religion." So will scientologists get some government cash?
Posted on Jun 12, 2001, Source: The Progressive
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