Barbara Ehrenreich Audio & Video

This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list since its publication....

In this talk from 2005, Barbara Ehrenreich describes some of her experiences writing Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. For the book she went undercover as one of the many working poor in America, taking up minimum wage jobs as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk.

America in the 'aughts---hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate" of Jonathan Swift.

Erasmus Prize winner, 2018 Best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny - or as she later learned to call them, "mystical" - experiences.

An insightful look at the rituals and reasons of collective ecstasy by the bestselling author of Nickeled and Dimed.

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.

Barbara Ehrenreich was interviewed about her life and writings. She responded to viewer telephone calls and electronic mail.

Journalist and activist Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her book, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.

Barbara Ehrenreich talked about her article “What Happened to the White Working Class?”