Nickel and Dimed

“Captivating … promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends and relatives.” –The New York Times

“Impassioned, fascinating, profoundly significant, and wildly entertaining … Nickel and Dimed is not only important but transformative in its insistence that we take a long hard look at the society we live in.” –Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine

“Valuable and illuminating … Barbara Ehrenreich is our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism.” –The New York Times Book Review

“Jarring … fully of riveting grit … this book is already unforgettable.” –The New York Times“Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.” –Diane Sawyer

“Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.” –Molly Ivins

“Ehrenreich is passionate, public, hotly lucid, and politically engaged.” –Chicago Tribune

“Ehrenreich’s scorn withers, her humor stings, and her radical light shines on.” –The Boston Globe

“One of today’s most original writers.” –The New York Times

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was a bestselling author and political activist, whose more than a dozen books included Nickel and Dimed, which the New York Times described as “a classic in social justice literature”, Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing In The Streets, and Blood Rites. An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism.