Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone could survive on six to seven dollars an hour. Ehrenreich left home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find and accepted whatever job she was offered, from cleaning to care work, waitressing to folding clothes at Wal-Mart. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America.
An extraordinary achievement.. surely one of the most gripping political books ever written * Observer *
A valuable and illuminating book ... Barbara Ehrenreich is now our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism * New York Times *
A funny, humane and important book, a testimony to those who lie forgotten at the bottom of the corporate heap -- Deborah Moggach * Independent *
Ehrenreich is one of the great American reporters ... her hawk's eye for detail swoops down on the petty tyrannies of martinet supervisors and the bullying contempt that accompanies contemptuous pay rates. She has an intellectual depth of analysis on this malfunctioning economy that Orwell never attempted in Down and Out in Paris and London or The Road to Wigan Pier -- Polly Toynbee * Guardian *
Feels more timely than ever: an undercover journey into the twilight of the US labour market ... it doesn't take a great leap of the imagination to relocate what she discovers to modern Britain -- Claire Allfree * Metro *
This account of being exploited in an affluent world is elevated by her humanity and humour * Sunday Times *
A valuable and illuminating book ... Barbara Ehrenreich is now our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism * New York Times *
A funny, humane and important book, a testimony to those who lie forgotten at the bottom of the corporate heap -- Deborah Moggach * Independent *
Ehrenreich is one of the great American reporters ... her hawk's eye for detail swoops down on the petty tyrannies of martinet supervisors and the bullying contempt that accompanies contemptuous pay rates. She has an intellectual depth of analysis on this malfunctioning economy that Orwell never attempted in Down and Out in Paris and London or The Road to Wigan Pier -- Polly Toynbee * Guardian *
Feels more timely than ever: an undercover journey into the twilight of the US labour market ... it doesn't take a great leap of the imagination to relocate what she discovers to modern Britain -- Claire Allfree * Metro *
This account of being exploited in an affluent world is elevated by her humanity and humour * Sunday Times *
Barbara Ehrenreich writes regularly for Time, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Guardian. She lives in Virginia, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847082626 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847082629 |
| Title | Nickel and Dimed |
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2010-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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