Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Ehrenreich died last week at 81. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Somebody has to grow and harvest the food in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Ehrenreich, the author, activist and self-described “myth buster” who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about ...

At the time Ehrenreich wrote Nickel and Dimed, and for decades before and after, she was a voice in the dark. When so many of her generation had abandoned the struggle for even slight political ...