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 survives 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 Walmart. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. In this brilliant, gripping and extraordinarily timely book, Barbara Ehrenreich expertly peels away the layers of self-denial, self-interest and self-protection that insulate the rich from the poor, the served from the servers, the housed from the homeless. This is a book about collective blindness that will change the way you see (Naomi Klein, author of No Logo)
'In a superb book called Nickel and Dimed, soon to be published in Britain, the journalist Barbara Ehrenreich sets off to find work as a cleaner or waitress in various American cities, and to live off her wagesOf the many disturbing aspects of the book, perhaps the most eerie is her experience of disappearing. In her new role, she can no longer find a reflection of herself on TV or radio or in magazines, and even in real life, people literally cannot see her' Decca Aitkenhead, Guardian 'In this brilliant, gripping and extraordinarily timely book, Barbara Ehrenreich expertly peels away the layers of self-denial, self-interest and self-protection that insulate the rich from poor; the served from the servers, the housed from the homeless. This is a book about collective blindness that will change the way you see' Naomi Klein, author of No Logo 'She is now our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism' New York 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 near Key West, Florida.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862075214 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862075212 |
| Title | Nickel and Dimed |
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2002-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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