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.
Have a nice day? Thanks, but I want pay, a more leisurely pace of work, and corporate hierarchies that reward performance over brown-nosing.
Posted on Dec 5, 2000, Source: The Progressive
The fact that online articles containing the phrase "oral sex" get three times as many hits as the sex-free variety makes the future of web journalism quite clear: we better get used to writing "all oral sex, all the time" or we'll be back to grading freshman Comp papers.
Posted on Jul 21, 2000, Source: The Progressive
Recent actions illustrate how absurdly ritualized leftwing protests have become. We need ways of protesting that are accessible to the uninitiated, untrained, nonvegan population as well as to the seasoned veteran.
Posted on Jun 13, 2000, Source: The Progressive
Poor people are largely invisible in today's media. But if any other comparably sized chunk of Americans were to vanish from public view, their faces would be appearing on milk cartons.
Posted on May 4, 2000, Source: The Progressive
"If the Democrats and Republicans didn't have abortion to distinguish them, they'd be scrapping over whose pictures to put on postage stamps and whether the Lincoln Bedroom should be redone in forest green. Come November, our only choice will be between a scumball, a scumball and Ralph Nader, coming soon to a church basement near you!"
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: The Progressive
"It's odd, given employers' lack of concern about the rest of their employees' private lives, that they take so much interest in pee tests. But the fascination with urine remains un-dimmed through the ages, despite the fact that drug testing doesn't work, even on the employers' rather Scrooge-like terms."
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: The Progressive
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