: Why writer Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) never stopped trying to change the world #IndiaNEWS We’ve just lost one of the world’s finest writers about inequality and class – and the business of

Why writer Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) never stopped trying to change the world #IndiaNEWS
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.Storytelling linked to political changeThe political effect of timely, powerful storytelling linked to political change is important – as was shown last week, during Australia’s Jobs and Skills Summit.An array of voices from Australia’s corporate, union and civil leadership dominated the summit. But the room was quietest around midday on day two, when household names were in short supply.Five very personal contributions on discrimination and community attitudes silenced the large room. Not because the speakers were famous;...Read more

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