![]() ![]() 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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