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"We’ve just lost one of the world’s finest writers about inequality and class –
and the business of being alive in the United States today. Barbara Ehrenreich,
best known for her “classic of social justice literature”,
Nickel and Dimed,
died on Thursday, aged 81.
Ehrenreich grew up in a working-class, “strong union” family, with blue-collar
roots. (Her father was a copper miner, who later earned a PhD and became an
executive; her mother was a homemaker.)
She wrote more than 20 books about the human condition and subjected experience
– frequently her own – to forensic examination. She probed the familiar to make
it strange, and linked what she found to a politics that aimed to make things
better.
Ehrenreich once said “seeing real prejudice for blue-collar, working-class
people” from her place within the professional middle class had a strong impact
on her."
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
