Nickel and Dimed
Subtitle: On (Not) Getting By in America
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780805063899
Subjects: Labour economics; Sociology, Social Studies; Unskilled labor; Poverty; Labor Economics (General); Social Science; Politics / Current Events; United States; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; Government - U.S. Government; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Social Science / Poverty; Labor; Minimum wage
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.