![]() ![]() ![]() Later, she used her name and energy to try to give low-income and other disadvantaged groups a direct voice to tell their own stories. The book helped spread awareness of an economy in which it was necessary to work two or three jobs to survive, and acted as a catalyst of the minimum wage movement. In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, her 2001 bestseller, she wrote an immersive experience of living as a low-waged worker in Key West, Florida. Her first book, published in 1969, Long March, Short Spring, was an account of the student uprising against the Vietnam war. ![]() Ehrenreich battled over a half a century as a writer committed to resisting injustice and giving a voice to those who were typically unheard. ![]()
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