She has a great subtle humor for this dark topic of inequality in America, but she's so smart and really gets the point across. Although it was written/published around the year 2000, the stories still exist today, maybe even more so. Hearing that she had passed I realized I still had one of her books (this one) that I kept passing over to read something else. I had read another one of her books years ago - This Land is Their Land - and just loved her writing style.
I was greeted on North Carolina radio talk shows by hosts asking, 'What does it feel like to be the Antichrist of North Carolina?' and similarly challenging inquiries.A short time ago I heard that Barbara Ehrenreich had passed away and it made me so sad. In 2003, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assigned Nickel and Dimed to all incoming students, prompting a group of conservative students and state legislators to hold a press conference denouncing it as a 'classic Marxist rant' and a work of 'intellectual pornography with no redeeming characteristics.' The group proceeded to take out a full-page ad in the Raleigh News and Observer that had little to say about the book but charged me with being a Marxist, an atheist, and a dedicated enemy of the American family - this last proven by my long-standing conviction that families headed by single mothers are as deserving of support as those headed by married couples. "I was braced for criticism when the book came out, but very little of any substance came to my attention and the only controversy the book stirred up was laughably off-target. In an afterword published in the 2011 edition of the book, Ehrenreich writes: New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.Įhrenreich’s book, published in 2001, documents her work in a series of minimum-wage jobs and includes her observations on the difficulties that low-wage workers face.
Book cover, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
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