Nickel and Dimed
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781587243684 (1587243687)
Publish date: January 1st 2003
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Pages no: 311
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Adult,
Economics,
Politics,
Sociology,
Social Issues,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find ...
How to live on so little? As a reporter, she did her research by working as a minimum wage worker. As expected, she couldn't afford a lot of things that she used to, because based on her undercover income, she really can't have nice things. But people still smoke. The constant luxury that both r...
This is the story of Barbara's adventures in working low paid jobs in three different places in the US. She presented herself as an ex-homemaker who was looking for a job and she found herself struggling with the balance of work, rent and food. She found herself struggling with the balance and wit...
3.5 starsInteresting.
#1 You can't possible know how it feels to "not get by" when you know at all times that you can always - always - produce your credit card (full of credit of course) from your wallet and just call it a night and go back to your real life doing whatever it is that you want to do because you can.#2 "N...
12 years ago
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