Barbara Alexander Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Barbara Ehrenreich (/ˈɛrɨnraɪk/; born August 26, 1941) is an American writer and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. Ehrenreich is perhaps best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. A memoir of Ehrenreich's three-month experiment surviving on minimum wage as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk, it was described by Newsweek magazine as "jarring" and "full of riveting grit", and by The New Yorker as an "exposé" putting "human flesh on the bones of such abstractions as 'living wage' and 'affordable housing'".
[Her assessment of some personal mystical encounters] I've learned since I was seventeen, when these things happened, all kinds of people have uncanny experiences which they can see as transcendental or unspeakable or whatever, and some of these people are atheists.
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[observation, 2014, on being 73 and on her own] I think I like living alone. I'd be happy to have some fella who came over, just as long as he was out of there by 9 p.m.
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Part of her 2009 commencement speech: You are going to be trying to carve out a career in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. You are furthermore going to be trying to do so within what appears to be a dying industry. You have abundant skills and talents; it's just not clear that anyone wants to pay you for them. Well, you are not alone. How do you think it feels to be an autoworker right now? And I've spent time with plenty of laid-off paper mill workers, construction workers and miners. They've got skills; they've got experience. They just don't have jobs. So let me be the first to say this to you: Welcome to the American working class.
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She was the 2009 commencement speaker at the University of California at Berkeley for the Graduate School of Journalism.
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Received a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University in 1968.
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Daily Show
2009-2015
TV Series
Herself
Tavis Smiley
2012-2014
TV Series
Herself / Herself - Guest
The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
2013
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself - Author
Democracy Now!
2011
TV Series
Herself
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
2010
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Colbert Report
2008
TV Series
Herself
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation
2005
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
2005
Video documentary
Herself - Author, Nickel & Dimed
The American Ruling Class
2005
Herself - Journalist
Booknotes
2004
TV Series
Herself
Charlie Rose
1997
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
1979
TV Series
Herself - Author
Known for movies
The American Ruling Class (2005) as Herself - Journalist
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation (2005) as Herself
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005) as Herself - Author, Nickel & Dimed
Tavis Smiley (2012-2014) as Herself / Herself - Guest