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Nickel and Dimed : On (Not) Getting by in America
ISBN: 9780805063882 | 0805063889
Format: Trade BookPublisher: Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date: 5/8/2001
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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, a... MORE
| Introduction: Getting Ready | p. 1 |
| Serving in Florida | p. 11 |
| Scrubbing in Maine | p. 51 |
| Selling in Minnesota | p. 121 |
| Evaluation | p. 193 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed, Blood Rites, The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller), Fear of Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.
