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Barbara Ehrenreich was born in August in Butte, Montana. In she graduated from Reed College, where she majored in physics, and in she received a Ph. After completing her studies, Ehrenreich turned her attention to political and anti-war activism. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, during an anti-Vietnam War campaign. They had two children, Rosa and Benjamin, before eventually divorcing.

In Ehrenreich married a union organizer named Gary Stevenson, whom she would divorce in the early s. Between and , Ehrenreich was a regular columnist for Time magazine. Since then. When the Communist Manifesto was re-released on its th anniversary in , Ehrenreich celebrated the event. She noted that in producing the Manifesto as a commercial product, capitalists were — as Lenin had once predicted — providing the rope that eventually would hang them.

In a November article for The Humanist , Ehrenreich, a self-described fourth-generation atheist, wrote that religions are essentially the same as cults, the only difference being the number of people involved. In her book Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America — which is still assigned to students on hundreds of college campuses nationwide — Ehrenreich asserts that atheism is the tradition of the working class.