Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting by in America

Name: Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting by in America
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ISBN: 9780312626686

ISBN-10: 0312626681

ISBN-13: 9780312626686

Edition: 2011

Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Sara Bershtel

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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, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 8/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.68" wide x 8.24" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.