Nickel and Dimed
Subtitle: On (Not) Getting by in America
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781587243684
Subjects: Working poor; Unskilled labor; Poverty; Biography & Autobiography; Sociology; Biography/Autobiography; Women; Minimum wage; United States
First sentence: Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city.