Barbara Ehrenreich Quote

Someone has to puncture the prevailing fiction that we’re a family here, we associates and our servant leaders, held together solely by our commitment to the guests. After all, you’d need a lot stronger word than dysfunctional to describe a family where a few people get to eat at the table while the rest—the associates and all the dark-skinned seamstresses and factory workers worldwide who make the things we sell—lick up the drippings from the floor: psychotic would be closer to the mark.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Someone has to puncture the prevailing fiction that we’re a family here, we associates and our servant leaders, held together solely by our commitment to the guests. After all, you’d need a lot stronger word than dysfunctional to describe a family where a few people get to eat at the table while the rest—the associates and all the dark-skinned seamstresses and factory workers worldwide who make the things we sell—lick up the drippings from the floor: psychotic would be closer to the mark.

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About Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (, AIR-ən-rike; née Alexander; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.