Nickel and dimed
Subtitle: on (not) getting by in America
By: Barbara Ehrenreich.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780805063882
Subjects: Minimum wage -- United States; Unskilled labor -- United States; Poverty -- United States
Description: "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 - could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper on six to seven dollars an hour?

To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair-raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America.".

"Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage 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 - quite the same way again."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Getting Ready
pagenum: 1; label: One
title: Serving in Florida
pagenum: 11; label: Two
title: Scrubbing in Maine
pagenum: 51; label: Three
title: Selling in Minnesota
pagenum: 121; title: Evaluation
pagenum: 193