From the Milton, Pa Standard Journal:
“LEWISBURG — Replete with humor and a tinge of acerbity, investigative journalist Barbara Ehrenreich called for an uprising of sorts against poverty-level wages and the disparity between the privileges of the wealthy and the working poor.
Imploring to an audience of college students, professors and community members, the noted author declared […]

Dear Friends,

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“(Money Magazine) — Writer Barbara Ehrenreich may be best known for chronicling the troubles of low-wage earners in her 2002 bestseller “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.”

But these days she’s putting her consciousness-raising to work for a less obviously needy group: white-collar workers.

Why? As Ehrenreich sees it, outsourcing, downsizing and increasing Wall Street pressure have made them as disposable as blue-collar workers. In September she launched United Professionals (unitedprofessionals.org) to support these “unemployed, under-employed and anxiously employed” Americans. …”

“This morning, my nine year old son and and his friends were engaged in a heated discussion. They were excitedly rehashing the plight of striking workers struggling for higher wages and more vacation time. In the end, one of the workers, emboldened by union organizing fever, (supporters of The Employee Free Choice Act beware!), destroyed the workplace and they got their jobs back but at lower rates and what amounted to a giveback of benefits. …”

“… Annabelle Gurwitch spins “Fired” tales of woe into book, Showtime film

Annabelle Gurwitch says she didn’t want to write her book. And you don’t want to feel like you need to read it, but you should.

If she offers the comic relief you’re looking for, it might be because you’re walking the streets and trolling the Internet looking for a job. If not, chances are you’ve been there before - or will get there someday.

ANNABELLE GURWITCH is finally done being fired. Four years after Woody Allen abruptly dismissed the L.A.-based actress from a play he was directing — telling her, among other things, that her reading of the part made her seem “retarded” — Gurwitch has come to the end of her multifaceted, multimedia journey of self-discovery.

Denver Post columnist Jim Spencer devoted a recent column to readers’ suggestions for links for his new blog. He mentioned unitedprofessionals.org as a “fascinating” site for the “unemployed, underemployed, and anxiously employed.”

From The New York Times, 09/14/2006
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
On a recent book tour, Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of “Nickel and Dimed,” was nearly brought to tears when an information technology marketer told her of growing so desperate after being laid off that she took a job as a janitor.
At another reading, a woman complained of an […]

From The Nation > Blog, 09/23/2006
By Katrina vanden HeuvelIn 2002, Barbara Ehrenreich and Thomas Geoghegan wrote in The Nation, “The underlying reason for organized labor’s decline is that our labor laws do not let people join unions, freely and fairly, without being fired.” The authors urged “a new approach to rebuilding unions — and to […]

From The Nation > Comment, 10/19/2006
By Barbara Ehrenreich & Tamara DrautA magical glow arises from the land. “Our economy is evolving,” Labor Secretary Elaine Chao told CNN in September. “It’s transitioning to a knowledge-based economy.” Many liberals are dazzled by the light, imagining a new era in which poverty is curable by education and the […]