Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.

A publishing phenomenon when first published, Barbara Ehrenreich's
Nickel and Dimed is a revelatory undercover investigation into life and survival in low-wage America, an increasingly urgent topic that continues to resonate.

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 in 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.
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ISBN 13 9780805063882
ISBN 10 0805063889
Title Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting by in America
Author Barbara Ehrenreich
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Henry Holt & Company Inc
Year published 2001-05-08
Number of pages 221
Prizes Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2001, Winner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2002, Winner of Alex Awards 2002, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2003, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2002
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