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- Friday, May 18, 2012
ZNet Article How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks -
- Friday, Mar 16, 2012
ZNet Article If we look closely enough, we’ll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money -
- Friday, Dec 16, 2011
ZNet Article Once an American starts to slip downward, a variety of forces kick in to help accelerate the slide -
- Monday, Oct 24, 2011
Commentary Homelessness is not a side issue unconnected to plutocracy and greed. It’s where we’re all eventually headed -
- Sunday, Oct 02, 2011
ZNet Article The latest group to claim victim status is the rich -
- Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
ZNet Article The answer depends not just on the number of people out of work but on the quality of jobs being offered -
- Wednesday, Aug 10, 2011
ZNet Article Excerpt from Nickel and Dimed (2011 version) -
- Tuesday, Aug 09, 2011
ZNet Article Jobs that don’t pay enough to live on do not cure poverty -
- Monday, Jul 11, 2011
Commentary We should define war as a self-replicating pattern of activity that may or may not require human participation -
- Thursday, Jan 27, 2011
ZNet Article Threaten the Greeks with job losses and benefit cuts and they tie up Athens, but take away Americans' jobs... -
- Monday, Dec 14, 2009
ZNet Article In her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the origins of contemporary optimism from nineteenth-century healers to twentieth-century pushers of consumerism. She... -
- Friday, Dec 04, 2009
ZNet Article The Uproar Over New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
ZNet Article Optimism as a Public Health Problem -
- Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009
ZNet Article Or Are We All Just Getting a Lot More Gullible? -
- Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009
ZNet Article To judge from most of the commentary on the Gates-Crowley affair, you would think that a "black elite" has gotten dangerously out of hand. First Gates (Cambridge, Yale, Harvard) showed insufficient deference to Crowley, then Obama (Occidental, Har... -
- Saturday, May 23, 2009
ZNet Article We are honored by the many fascinating and challenging responses to our essay, and we are happy to have a chance to clarify and expand on it. If there was one misunderstanding--for which we, of course, take responsibility--it is that we announced ... -
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009
ZNet Article In most parts of the world, mass unemployment brings the specter of mass social unrest. Not in the U.S., though, where 13 million people have accepted joblessness with nary a peep of protest. -
- Saturday, Mar 07, 2009
ZNet Article Essay on need for Socialist vision... ZNet Article Essay on need for Socialist vision... -
- Sunday, Feb 22, 2009
ZNet Article Our 1979 satire was not subtle. Yet Mohamed's life was destroyed, it seems, for having read it. -
- Saturday, Feb 21, 2009
ZNet Article If anything symbolizes the excesses and inequalities of the last few years, it's the private Learjet or Gulfstream. While the masses take off their shoes and line up for security screening, high-fliers inhabit a parallel transportation universe ch... -
- Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009
ZNet Article Ever on the lookout for the bright side of hard times, I am tempted to delete “class inequality†from my worry list. Less than a year ago, it was the one of the biggest economic threats on the horizon, with even hard line conservative pundits ... -
- Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008
ZNet Article Surely you have heard by now of the imminent socialist takeover of America, and if you find the prospect unlikely, ask yourself: How many socialists do you know who lost millions in the recent stock market crashes? Just as I thought -- none -- and... -
- Sunday, Oct 05, 2008
ZNet Article This year marks the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto and capitalism -- a k a "free enterprise" -- seems willing to observe the occasion by dropping dead... -
- Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008
ZNet Article A few days before Congress passed its Housing Bill, Carlene Balderrama of Taunton, MA found her own solution to the housing crisis. Just a little over two hours in advance of the time her mortgage company, PHH Mortgage Corporation -- may its nam... -
- Monday, Jun 23, 2008
ZNet Article Everyone talks about our terrible dependency on oil -- foreign and otherwise -- but hardly anyone mentions what it is. Fossil fuel, all right, but whose fossils? Mostly tiny plants called diatoms, but quite possibly a few Barney-like creatures wen... -
- Monday, May 12, 2008
ZNet Article In Friday’s New York Times, Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her media reputation as “nasty” and “ruthless.” F... -
- Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008
ZNet Article Truckers live in an alternative dimension, at least so I conclude when trying to figure out how to meet up with the convoy of trucks coming into to DC to protest high diesel fuel prices on Monday. JB, a k a Mike Schaffner, one of the organizers of... -
- Friday, Apr 11, 2008
ZNet Article Until the beginning of this month, Americans seemed to have nothing to say about their ongoing economic ruin except, "Hit me! Please, hit me again!" You can take my house, but let me mow the lawn for you one more time before you repossess. Take my... -
- Friday, Mar 28, 2008
ZNet Article We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country... - All Recent Content
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- Thursday, Mar 17, 2011
Video Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. -
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Video DR. BARBARA EHRENREICH Political Essayist, Social Critic, Activist and Novelist. Author: "Blood Rites - Origins and History of the Passions of War" Originally aired" 11-10-97. Video Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decries corporate hiring practices for what she sees as an over-emphasis on upbeat, extroverted personalities, while overlooking such factors as creativity and skill. Video Barbara Ehrenreich gives the graduating class of 2007 a realistic look at what's in store for them in the post-college world. Please visit her new organizations website which advocates for the shrinking middle class: www.unitedprofessionals.org. - All Recent Video
Featured Ehrenreich's Articles
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- Friday, May 18, 2012
ZNet Article How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks -
- Friday, Mar 16, 2012
ZNet Article If we look closely enough, we’ll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money -
- Friday, Dec 16, 2011
ZNet Article Once an American starts to slip downward, a variety of forces kick in to help accelerate the slide -
- Sunday, Oct 02, 2011
ZNet Article The latest group to claim victim status is the rich -
- Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
ZNet Article The answer depends not just on the number of people out of work but on the quality of jobs being offered -
- Wednesday, Aug 10, 2011
ZNet Article Excerpt from Nickel and Dimed (2011 version) -
- Tuesday, Aug 09, 2011
ZNet Article Jobs that don’t pay enough to live on do not cure poverty -
- Thursday, Jan 27, 2011
ZNet Article Threaten the Greeks with job losses and benefit cuts and they tie up Athens, but take away Americans' jobs... -
- Monday, Dec 14, 2009
ZNet Article In her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the origins of contemporary optimism from nineteenth-century healers to twentieth-century pushers of consumerism. She... -
- Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009
ZNet Article To judge from most of the commentary on the Gates-Crowley affair, you would think that a "black elite" has gotten dangerously out of hand. First Gates (Cambridge, Yale, Harvard) showed insufficient deference to Crowley, then Obama (Occidental, Har... - All Featured Ehrenreich's Articles
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Book A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other. -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
Book This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book Widely praised as “impressive” (The Washington Post Book World), “ambitious” (The Wall Street Journal), and “alluring” (The Los Angeles Times), Dancing in the Streets explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack ev... Book In this follow-up to Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenrich and Deidre English look at the evolution of the medical view of the female sex and how it has been used to reinforce the social view of women. Book In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence... Book The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America’s ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. - All Recent Books
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