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Barbara Ehrenreich helped make inequality visible – her legacy lives on in a reinvigorated labor movement

  • Written by Adia Harvey Wingfield, Professor of Sociology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Barbara Ehrenreich helped make inequality visible – her legacy lives on in a reinvigorated labor movementBest-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich in a 2005 photo.AP Photo/Andrew Shurtleff

Have you heard of Jaz Brisack, Liz Fong-Jones and Chris Smalls?

Those names might not be familiar to all Americans, but their recent accomplishments amount to a potential sea change in labor rights.

As union organizers or advocates for better work conditions at some of...

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