Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again) POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2022 It’s with both sadness and pleasure that I post this…
Looking Towards the Future
Interview about class, reporting, the coronavirus, and socialism
Interview on why Sanders is her choice for 2020, the joys of radical politics and why there’s no time to wait on capitalism to solve the climate crisis
How do we recognize the similarities between people of different class positions without papering over the differences?
Fifteen years ago Barbara Ehrenreich interviewed Michael Albert about participatory economics. The exchange largely addressed matters of allocation, participatory planning versus markets, so we rerun it to accompany the series of essays on socialism now appearing on ZNet
Barbara Ehrenreich has written extensively about the impossibility of getting by with low-wage work in the U.S. and the everyday indignities workers…
New kinds of work require new ideas — and new ways of organizing
The Great Die-Off of America’s Blue Collar Whites
An interview with Barbara Ehrenreich by South End Press on “Being Left”: …”you don’t know what you are doing all the time, you don’t know what kind of effect your actions are having, but you know that if you keep flipping marbles at a big crowd of marbles, eventually, bit by bit, they all might start moving.”
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