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Lagniappe Sunday

These 10 Books Changed the Way Americans Thought About Work I picked Ehrenreich’s Nickled and Dimed for my book club and the discussion was, shall we say, lively, but I had no idea of the massive effect it had on American labor as a whole. (WSJ gift link) Architectural Digest gives a two-hour tour of…

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Written in a blaze of anger and indignation

Ehrenreich writes an introduction for this reprint of a 1973 classic, and as she says …we have to remind ourselves that WMN was written in a blaze of anger and indignation. This book was contemporaneous with Our Bodies, Ourselves, the feminist text on the female body. It enlightened a generation of women who until then had taken…

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