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

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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
Title remainder
on (not) getting by in America
Statement of responsibility
Barbara Ehrenreich
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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
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

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