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Nickel and Dimed Signed by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- ISBN
- 9780805063882
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805063889
ISBN-13
9780805063882
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1596699
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nickel and Dimed
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Poverty & Homelessness, Labor
Publication Year
2001
Features
Revised
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-052514
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul." (Molly Ivins) "Ehrenreich is passionate, public, hotly lucid, and politically engaged." (Chicago Tribune) "Ehrenreich's scorn withers, her humor stings, and her radical light shines on." (The Boston Globe) "One of today's most original writers." (The New York Times) "Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four."(Diane Sawyer)
Dewey Decimal
305.5690973
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota., 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 nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.
LC Classification Number
HD4918.E375 2001
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