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The Resource Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Label
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
Title
Nickel and dimed
Title remainder
on (not) getting by in America
Statement of responsibility
Barbara Ehrenreich
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author 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, she 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. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors
Awards note
School Library Journal Best Adult Books for YA (2002); New York Times Book Review (2001).
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Dewey number
  • 305.569/092
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
HD4918
LC item number
.E375 2001
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Minimum wage
  • Working poor
  • Unskilled labor
  • Poverty
  • Minnesota
  • Minneapolis (Minn.)
  • United States
  • United States
Label
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation
Control code
ocm45243324
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
221 pages
Isbn
9780805063882
Lccn
00052514
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780805063882
Stock number
a
System control number
  • (OCoLC)45243324
  • (Sirsi) ACX-6016
Label
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation
Control code
ocm45243324
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
221 pages
Isbn
9780805063882
Lccn
00052514
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780805063882
Stock number
a
System control number
  • (OCoLC)45243324
  • (Sirsi) ACX-6016

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