Nickel and Dimed
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By Barbara EhrenreichThe sharp social critic and author of Blood Rites looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By Barbara EhrenreichThe sharp social critic and author of Blood Rites looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By Barbara EhrenreichIn an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By Barbara EhrenreichNickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By Barbara EhrenreichBeautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.
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Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage USA
By Barbara EhrenreichMillions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone survives on six dollars an hour.
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Nickel and Dimed
By Joan HoldenTHE STORY: Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive, when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
By Barbara EhrenreichIn 1998, Ehrenreich was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job--any job--can be the ticket to a better life.