Had I Known: Collected Essays
Written by Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrated by Suzanne Toren
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A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists.
'One of our great iconoclasts, lucid, thought-provoking and instructive'
- the Guardian
A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastating wit and insight into the social and political fabric of America.
Had I Known gathers together Ehrenreich's most significant articles and excerpts from the last four decades - some of which became the starting point for her bestselling books - from her award-winning article 'Welcome to Cancerland', published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking investigative journalism in 'Nickel and Dimed', which explored living in America on the minimum wage. Issues she identified as far back as the 80s and 90s such as work poverty, rising inequality, the gender divide and medicalised health care, are top of the social and political agenda today.
Written with remarkable tenderness, humour and incisiveness, Ehrenreich's describes an America of struggle, inequality, racial bias and injustice. Her extraordinarily prescient and relevant perspective announces her as one of most significant thinkers of our day.
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"Barbara Ehrenreich has committed her life to writing in defense of women, immigrants, people of color, people in the LGBTQ+ community, people who are homeless, minimum-wage workers, and those who can't even aspire to that luxury. Often prescient, her essays in this latest collection span several decades, explaining how we got to where we are today. A brave and brilliant thinker, she is most remarkable for reminding us how to be human in savage times. HAD I KNOWN is a dazzling tribute to Ehrenreich's unwavering commitment to that cause, her mastery of craft, and an expansive and exceptional career centering on the art of the essay."--PEN Awards
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR BARBARA EHRENREICH
Ehrenreich's sharp and fearless take on mortality privileges joy over juice fasts and argues that, regardless of how many hours we spend in the gym, death wins out. An incisive, clear-eyed polemic, Natural Causes relaxes into the realization that the grim reaper is considerably less grim than a life spent in terror of a fate that awaits us all.--Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted
this argumentative and passionate collection...challenges the status quo throughout, while also including a healthy dose of self-questioning. She is wittily satirical at times...and bitterly Swiftian at others. Gripping.--Publishers Weekly
[Ehrenreich's] significant research is conveyed in a wry, taut polemical style...[She] chillingly foresaw the devastation of labor and the middle class...and the increased cruelty of law enforcement toward the vulnerable...With such relevance to fractured late-capitalist America, Ehrenreich's work warrants renewed attention.--Kirkus Reviews
[Ehrenreich] resolutely avoids rhetoric in that 'blubbery vein'--which is why her book is such a rare feat...She struggles to make sense of the epiphany without recourse to the 'verbal hand-wavings about mystery and transcendence' that go with the territory... Ehrenreich has no interest in conversion...She wants, and inspires, open minds.--The Atlantic
[HAD I KNOWN is] a one-stop shop for fans of Ehrenreich's gimlet eye and informed outrage...A rewarding, illuminating tour de force.--Booklist
Barbara Ehrenreich is a singular voice of sanity amid our national obsession with wellness and longevity. She is deeply well-informed about contemporary medical practices and their shortcomings, but she wears her learning lightly. Natural Causes is a delightful as well as an enlightening read. No one who cares about living (or dying) well can afford to miss it.--Jackson Lears, PhD, Editor in Chief of the Raritan Quarterly Review
Ehrenreich has always been an intellectual and a journalistic badass... [She] ultimately arrives at a truce with the idea of God. You'll admire her journey.--Entertainment Weekly
Ehrenreich's work is appealing for its fiery focus on social injustice... striking for [its] foresight...[and] a reminder that Ehrenreich's writing is just plain fun to read, thanks to her acerbic wit and spirited grumpiness.--GQ
The factor that makes each of [Barbara's] books so completely unique in American intellectual life is her persistent sensitivity to matters of social class. She can always see through the smokescreen, the cloud of fibs we generate to make ourselves feel better about a world where the work of the many subsidizes the opulent lifestyles of the few. That, plus the fact that she writes damned well. Better than almost anyone out there, in fact.--Salon
The strange and frightening world we suddenly find ourselves living in is one Ehrenreich has warned about for decades...Her scathing take feels all but prophetic now.--The Washington Post
Throughout the text, [Ehrenreich] employs the erudition that earned her degree, the social consciousness that has long informed her writing, and the compassion that endears her to her many fans...A powerful text that floods the mind with illumination-and with agonizing questions.--Kirkus (starred review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Starts strong but fades into the finish...
Reviewed in the United States on 13 June 2020
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The perfect example of a book with a strong centerpiece essay surrounded by, at times, meandering filler.
For instance, her essays on poverty, especially "Nickel-and-Dimed" are particularly searing and worth the price of the book; it's outstanding. The rest, however, have moments of brilliance enveloped in otherwise trite observations.
Worth a try.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read and learn
Reviewed in the United States on 14 July 2021
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This book contains articles written from 1986 to 2019. What is very apparent is that things are not getting better. The poor are getting poorer, some Americans are becoming more cruel as they fear change, and so much just doesn't work as it should. It's too bad the people who really need to read this book won't. They are too busy deny and depriving: denying the truth about the 2020 elections and depriving every person except straight white Republican Christians of their rights and freedoms.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My hero
Reviewed in the United States on 22 July 2020
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Barbara Ehrenreich is one of this country's most provocative and original writers, cutting through America's indoctrination and mythologizing with sharp wit and lucid, open-minded thinking. She's the ultimate social justice badass.
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A new selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" (The New Yorker) Barbara Ehrenreich.
A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.
From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume. (less)
A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.
From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume. (less)
Nov 30, 2020Paula rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I love Barbara Ehrenreich, and while I haven't read all of her books, I've read most of them (my favorite being "Nickeled and Dimed") but NOT many of her published articles. So for me, this was mostly all new essays with which I was unfamiliar. Yes, they have all been published elsewhere, and yes they are dated - some going back to the 1980's - but I still found them fresh and insightful in, if nothing else, an historical way.
If you're a follower of everything Ehrenreich writes, this may not be for you if you've read ALL her published work over the years. I haven't - only her books - so I found this collection of essays worth my time. Some of them are surprisingly relevant today. The woman had great foresight and insight, and her background as an "experiential scientist" made the essays come to life. As some have said here, they are very much the product of a white-educated and upper-middle-class raised woman, and the topic of racism is never addressed. But she does write a lot about the poor. Almost all of these essays made me stop and think about whatever topic she was touching on. I enjoyed them. (less)
If you're a follower of everything Ehrenreich writes, this may not be for you if you've read ALL her published work over the years. I haven't - only her books - so I found this collection of essays worth my time. Some of them are surprisingly relevant today. The woman had great foresight and insight, and her background as an "experiential scientist" made the essays come to life. As some have said here, they are very much the product of a white-educated and upper-middle-class raised woman, and the topic of racism is never addressed. But she does write a lot about the poor. Almost all of these essays made me stop and think about whatever topic she was touching on. I enjoyed them. (less)
Apr 15, 2020Katie rated it really liked it
A great encapsulation of the incisive, skeptical, wry, wide-ranging writings of Barbara Ehrenreich. Essays in here range from the mid-1980s to 2018, and cover a lot of ground: poverty and wealth inequality in America, gender and social dynamics, religion and culture, and the insidious qualities of pop psychology. Written with a lot of wit and insight.
Two cautions: 1) Barbara Ehrenreich is deeply perceptive about class, but doesn't focus on race. She has been criticized for this, and some readers will find it a deficiency. I accept it as a limitation but not something that negates the value of her work, just an invitation to layer other thinkers onto it. 2) This book is a little misleading in the way it was advertised--it's entirely collected writings with nothing new. So if you've already read most of her work you may not be encountering material you haven't read already. I would have liked an introductory and concluding essay to frame this collection, but still, a worthwhile read. (less)
Two cautions: 1) Barbara Ehrenreich is deeply perceptive about class, but doesn't focus on race. She has been criticized for this, and some readers will find it a deficiency. I accept it as a limitation but not something that negates the value of her work, just an invitation to layer other thinkers onto it. 2) This book is a little misleading in the way it was advertised--it's entirely collected writings with nothing new. So if you've already read most of her work you may not be encountering material you haven't read already. I would have liked an introductory and concluding essay to frame this collection, but still, a worthwhile read. (less)
Aug 11, 2020Rachel rated it liked it
I love Barbara Ehrenreich's writing. This collection obviously has that spark, but I did not love it.
One, most of the pieces are seriously dated. They range from 1984 to 2017, with pretty even distribution over the years. Sometimes I barely remembered the then-current events she was writing about.
Two, I love her snark. But in some of these essays, she was snarky in ways that I didn't like. I loved Brightsided and her takedowns of perky positive thinking and other woo. But some of these took down...people who like animals? And mindfulness; I mean, if someone is all "I'm more spiritual that you" about it, yeah. But, without the fanfare, it's a pretty common-sense practice and can help people. I'm all for tearing apart unscientific "science" too, but in several places, her logic was no better than what she was criticizing.
Three, she is just so white educated upper middle class, for all her protestations of coming from common working people (though I like when she writes about her family; interesting people). Some of her subject matter is comprehensible only in upper middle class terms. Like how mindfulness is all the rage. And the fitness craze. And how there are fewer journalism jobs available nowadays.
I've never read Nickel and Dimed, so was happy to see "Nickel-and-Dimed" (1999), which predated the book. It was interesting. But she only lasted a month! With that short a time, it read too much like slumming. (I guess she later did two more separate months for the book - but never did more than a month at a time.)
Perhaps it would have helped if she'd written short updates for at least some of the pieces, noting how times and her viewpoint have changed, or giving more context.
Still, it was nice to dive into her writings for a while. I hope to continue reading new writings from her. (less)
One, most of the pieces are seriously dated. They range from 1984 to 2017, with pretty even distribution over the years. Sometimes I barely remembered the then-current events she was writing about.
Two, I love her snark. But in some of these essays, she was snarky in ways that I didn't like. I loved Brightsided and her takedowns of perky positive thinking and other woo. But some of these took down...people who like animals? And mindfulness; I mean, if someone is all "I'm more spiritual that you" about it, yeah. But, without the fanfare, it's a pretty common-sense practice and can help people. I'm all for tearing apart unscientific "science" too, but in several places, her logic was no better than what she was criticizing.
Three, she is just so white educated upper middle class, for all her protestations of coming from common working people (though I like when she writes about her family; interesting people). Some of her subject matter is comprehensible only in upper middle class terms. Like how mindfulness is all the rage. And the fitness craze. And how there are fewer journalism jobs available nowadays.
I've never read Nickel and Dimed, so was happy to see "Nickel-and-Dimed" (1999), which predated the book. It was interesting. But she only lasted a month! With that short a time, it read too much like slumming. (I guess she later did two more separate months for the book - but never did more than a month at a time.)
Perhaps it would have helped if she'd written short updates for at least some of the pieces, noting how times and her viewpoint have changed, or giving more context.
Still, it was nice to dive into her writings for a while. I hope to continue reading new writings from her. (less)
This is a collection of essays published over a number of decades. The topics range from the pitfalls of prosperity gospel, to a commentary on the co-opting of the word “family” by the religious right, to essays that were the starting points for several of her books. It's tough to name a favorite, but the one that had the highest ratio of OMG moments per 60 seconds of audio was the one written in the middle of Reagan's second term, when the effects of his reverse-Robin Hood ideology were becoming startlingly clear. With every statistic about the decline of the middle class, widening income gap, and loss of good-paying jobs, I kept thinking, “Oh, sweet child, hold on to your hat. You ain't seen nothing yet.”
Barbara's uncanny ability to spot, identify, and call out the latest corporate “woo” fad is one of the best things about her, and bless her for pointing out that companies do not offer mindfulness training (or anything else that might be construed as a perquisite) out of the goodness of their hearts, but to squeeze that last little ounce of productivity out of an already overworked and underpaid staff.
Worth the read, even if you've already read her books. If you haven't read her books, this is a great sampler of the kinds of issues addressed there. (less)
Barbara's uncanny ability to spot, identify, and call out the latest corporate “woo” fad is one of the best things about her, and bless her for pointing out that companies do not offer mindfulness training (or anything else that might be construed as a perquisite) out of the goodness of their hearts, but to squeeze that last little ounce of productivity out of an already overworked and underpaid staff.
Worth the read, even if you've already read her books. If you haven't read her books, this is a great sampler of the kinds of issues addressed there. (less)
Apr 23, 2020Roxanne added it
Ehrenreich’s writing is unlike some pedantic non-fiction books, meaning it’s chock full of wry humor. Sure, in her new collection of essays Had I Known: Collected Essays, she delivers some very bleak encounters, yet she does so with such humorous panache that you’re not left crying, but rather charged up and ready to do something to help.
Her essays are categorized into Have and Have-Nots, Health, Men, Women, God, Science & Joy and last, but not least, Bourgeois Blunders all offering buckets of rainy mood statistics destined to fire up your humanitarian spirit.
In her first essay from Harper’s Magazine entitled “Nickeled and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America”, Ehrenreich details her experiment as a laborer in the Florida Keys. What frightened me about this article was people living on the edge working two jobs, with the obvious realization that it has only gotten worse. Yet Ehrenreich makes you buck up and pay attention and do something about people who live on the margins. For myself, I plan to donate the silly bag of goods I previously planned to sell at a garage sale, to someone in need. A small gesture, but every good deed has a ripple effect, given our current crisis.
Within the Men section “Patriarchy Deflated” is an unconventional look at the possible solution to misogyny. God, Science and Joy contains nuggets like “Up Close at Trinidad’s Carnival”, an essay I read with vicarious awe given our current predicament. And as a perfect book end to this essay collection; “Divisions of Labor” from the New York Times in 2017, she hammers home the need for, if not unions, then some caring force ensuring workers are paid for their hard work.
I think now of the fun Rochester Red Wings baseball games I used to attend where a tongue in cheek “Waste Man”, a theoretical super hero advertising that refuse company ran through the stands, and realize now ‘he, the garbage man, is truly a superhero, along with the home health aides toiling in nursing homes afflicted with Covid 19. This book is a well written reminder that we need to recognize with fair pay the people whose backs we stand on, keeping us all afloat.
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Her essays are categorized into Have and Have-Nots, Health, Men, Women, God, Science & Joy and last, but not least, Bourgeois Blunders all offering buckets of rainy mood statistics destined to fire up your humanitarian spirit.
In her first essay from Harper’s Magazine entitled “Nickeled and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America”, Ehrenreich details her experiment as a laborer in the Florida Keys. What frightened me about this article was people living on the edge working two jobs, with the obvious realization that it has only gotten worse. Yet Ehrenreich makes you buck up and pay attention and do something about people who live on the margins. For myself, I plan to donate the silly bag of goods I previously planned to sell at a garage sale, to someone in need. A small gesture, but every good deed has a ripple effect, given our current crisis.
Within the Men section “Patriarchy Deflated” is an unconventional look at the possible solution to misogyny. God, Science and Joy contains nuggets like “Up Close at Trinidad’s Carnival”, an essay I read with vicarious awe given our current predicament. And as a perfect book end to this essay collection; “Divisions of Labor” from the New York Times in 2017, she hammers home the need for, if not unions, then some caring force ensuring workers are paid for their hard work.
I think now of the fun Rochester Red Wings baseball games I used to attend where a tongue in cheek “Waste Man”, a theoretical super hero advertising that refuse company ran through the stands, and realize now ‘he, the garbage man, is truly a superhero, along with the home health aides toiling in nursing homes afflicted with Covid 19. This book is a well written reminder that we need to recognize with fair pay the people whose backs we stand on, keeping us all afloat.
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Nov 10, 2020Alison added it
DNF at 30%. I love me a good essay collection, and this just wasn’t it. So many of these pieces (originally published 1984-2017) were dated beyond being relevant and/or didn’t age well. This felt like a money grab rather than a thoughtfully put together collection.
Dec 19, 2020Carol Chapin marked it as didn-t-finish-or-didn-t-reread
I saw this book on a library “New Releases” shelf and picked it up for two reasons: I had read Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel and Dimed” (in 2002: four stars), and I’m interested in the essay as a writing form. The first essay in this book is the article “Nickel and Dimed” that apparently evolved into the book. I liked the essay (again); it was part of a section titled “Haves and have nots”. But I did not find the other essays in that section particularly interesting. This may be because many were outdated, referring to the financial crisis of 2007 – and our problems seem much larger today.
In the second section, “Health”, I was impressed by her essay “Welcome to Cancerland”. It reveals a lot about the author, who underwent treatment for breast cancer, apparently around the time of the essay (2001). She makes some excellent points that I had never considered: breast cancer is almost an industry these days, with pink ribbons, teddy bears, and races that are inefficient fundraisers. The disease is an “attractive target of corporate charity”. Patients are treated in a “rah-rah”, almost infantile manner. At the same time, the probable causes for the increase in the disease – environmental carcinogens – are largely ignored. Bitter, her final words are, “I will not go into that last good night with a teddy bear tucked under my arm.”
This was a great essay, but as I read more on the subjects of “Health” and “Men” (I got about half-way through the book), I found that although she writes as a “fly in the ointment”, sometimes her points are too much for me. For example, she criticizes current obsessions with fitness - we idolize fitness as something “moral”, in her view. I’m not one to favor political correctness, but I feel that she is nitpicking something that is basically good. She terms herself sarcastic, but it seemed to me that she takes it too far. As I kept reading these essays, I found that I didn’t like her tone. There are probably more good essays in the book, but I just didn’t want to keep reading.
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In the second section, “Health”, I was impressed by her essay “Welcome to Cancerland”. It reveals a lot about the author, who underwent treatment for breast cancer, apparently around the time of the essay (2001). She makes some excellent points that I had never considered: breast cancer is almost an industry these days, with pink ribbons, teddy bears, and races that are inefficient fundraisers. The disease is an “attractive target of corporate charity”. Patients are treated in a “rah-rah”, almost infantile manner. At the same time, the probable causes for the increase in the disease – environmental carcinogens – are largely ignored. Bitter, her final words are, “I will not go into that last good night with a teddy bear tucked under my arm.”
This was a great essay, but as I read more on the subjects of “Health” and “Men” (I got about half-way through the book), I found that although she writes as a “fly in the ointment”, sometimes her points are too much for me. For example, she criticizes current obsessions with fitness - we idolize fitness as something “moral”, in her view. I’m not one to favor political correctness, but I feel that she is nitpicking something that is basically good. She terms herself sarcastic, but it seemed to me that she takes it too far. As I kept reading these essays, I found that I didn’t like her tone. There are probably more good essays in the book, but I just didn’t want to keep reading.
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Jun 17, 2020Shirley rated it it was amazing
Had I known... this collection is so amazing I would’ve read it sooner!
I love Barbara, her insight, topic of interest and writing style really speaks to me. The breast cancer article was especially interesting to me. More Ehrenreich books soon!
I love Barbara, her insight, topic of interest and writing style really speaks to me. The breast cancer article was especially interesting to me. More Ehrenreich books soon!
Oct 23, 2020Dustin Thompson rated it liked it
I enjoyed the articles but some of them were from the 1980s and she made no additional comments nor did she update them which was a HUGE missed opportunity, especially the articles where she foresaw some things that have come to fruition. I wanted more from the author of one of my 10 Best Books of Ever-'Nickel and Dimed'. (less)
Jul 18, 2021Joe Pickert rated it liked it
I'm starting to sour on Barbara Ehrenreich. While I enjoy her broader social commentary and analysis of the PMC, her writing is sanctimonious in a way that's becoming harder to ignore.
I think we need some distance. (less)
I think we need some distance. (less)
Jun 12, 2020Walter rated it liked it · review of another edition
The perfect example of a book with a strong centerpiece essay surrounded by, at times, meandering filler.
For instance, her essays on poverty, especially "Nickel-and-Dimed" are particularly searing and worth the price of the book. The rest, however, have moments of brilliance enveloped in otherwise trite observations. ...more
For instance, her essays on poverty, especially "Nickel-and-Dimed" are particularly searing and worth the price of the book. The rest, however, have moments of brilliance enveloped in otherwise trite observations. ...more
Oct 22, 2020Susan Emmet rated it it was amazing
I've long admired Ehrenreich's work. I'm glad to own this essay compilation even though I've read it all over many years. Her work bookends so much of my working life.
Ehrenreich has often lived what she writes. Bravo! She has sought to enter others' worlds, trying not to eclipse them. Tough to do that, but she has often succeeded. The addition of a new introduction is also a plus.
Getting by when you work in the service economy? Blue collar white people? Cancer? Fitness? Grease? Rape? Patriarchy? Corporate Women? Abu Ghraib? Pornography? The New Creationism? Trinidad's Carnival? Family values? Homelessness? The Cult of Busyness? The Death of the Yuppie Dream?
I write this the afternoon of the last Pandemic Presidential Debate, moderated by Kristen Welker. I will have Ehrenreich in the forefront of my mind.
"The impoverishment of journalists impoverishes journalism. We come to find less and less in the media about the people who work paycheck to paycheck, as if 80% of the population had quietly emigrated while the other 20 percent wasn't looking."
Rings true on many issues. Impoverishment of focus? Money? Education? Access to jobs and housing and flood insurance and health care and internet access and liberty, happiness and life? Yep!
Ehrenreich has often lived what she writes. Bravo! She has sought to enter others' worlds, trying not to eclipse them. Tough to do that, but she has often succeeded. The addition of a new introduction is also a plus.
Getting by when you work in the service economy? Blue collar white people? Cancer? Fitness? Grease? Rape? Patriarchy? Corporate Women? Abu Ghraib? Pornography? The New Creationism? Trinidad's Carnival? Family values? Homelessness? The Cult of Busyness? The Death of the Yuppie Dream?
I write this the afternoon of the last Pandemic Presidential Debate, moderated by Kristen Welker. I will have Ehrenreich in the forefront of my mind.
"The impoverishment of journalists impoverishes journalism. We come to find less and less in the media about the people who work paycheck to paycheck, as if 80% of the population had quietly emigrated while the other 20 percent wasn't looking."
Rings true on many issues. Impoverishment of focus? Money? Education? Access to jobs and housing and flood insurance and health care and internet access and liberty, happiness and life? Yep!
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