Nickel and Dimed
Subtitle: On (Not) Getting By in America
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780805063882
Subjects: Women's studies; Work & labour; Unskilled labor; Social Science; Unskilled Occupations; Wages; Working poor; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; USA; Government - U.S. Government; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Sociology - Social Theory; Political Science / Economic Conditions; Business & Economics; Labor; Minimum wage; Poverty; United States
First sentence: the mines and I never got through college, I am "baby," "honey," "blondie," and, most commonly, "girl." My first task is to find a place to live.