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Barbara Ehrenreich never stopped trying to change the world

  • Written by: Barbara Pocock, Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
Barbara Ehrenreich never stopped trying to change the worldAndrew Shurtleff/AP

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,...

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