The Radicalization of Barbara Ehrenreich?
I was surfing the web today and read something that referenced Barbara Ehrenreich’s turn to blogging. I took a look and found that the current front page of her blog to be an entry decrying bossism and seemingly advocating workplace democracy. Ehrenreich, for those of you not familiar with her work made a big splash with Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America a few years ago. The media loved this book. Middle class intellectuals loved this book. A lot of us from working class backgrounds had a kind of “duh, yeah, it’s hard to be poor” moment when they read it. I read it on a flight. She is, at least, an engaging writer. She’s also very upfront that her time spent living and working on low paying jobs is not the same as someone spending a life doing it. All in all, a decent read, but not the revelation you might think it is from reading her reviews.
