“Nickel and Dimed” as a theater piece is deadened by jokes in the wrong place and the kind of unconsciously smug gloss over the anguish and ache of real experience, where women’s suffering in this ...

No, actually, I cannot muster much, if any, enthusiasm for Bait and Switch. If anything, you may be too kind to Ehrenreich. The least of her problems is her cluelessness about what it takes to find ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 1998, acclaimed author Barbara Ehrenreich set out to research low-wage life ...

The Buckeye Book Community welcomed Barbara Ehrenreich to Ohio State Monday to discuss her book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.” The book addresses topics such as minimum wage and ...

For years, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote acerbic commentary on wealth and poverty from the comfort of her home, until an assignment from her editor at Harper's magazine forced her to explore firsthand how ...

Barbara Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the ...

NICKEL AND DIMED: On (Not) Getting By in America. By Barbara Ehrenreich. Metropolitan Books, $23. THIS should be exhilarating, I tell myself, like a dive into the frigid New England Atlantic, followed ...

Halfway through her best-selling Nickel and Dimed, a book examining the minimum-wage way of life, author Barbara Ehrenreich stops for a disquisition on cleaning other people’s toilets. “The first time ...

It's been a long, hot summer across most of the country, but before you take the next sip of that Big Gulp, pause and think. To whom or what do you owe your summer pleasures? These perks of ...

Many of the working poor in America have suffered in the latest economic slowdown. Jeffrey Kaye reports on how one woman and her family cope. At the Los Angles Music Center this fall, many patrons ...