Description:
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in
America is her account of going undercover to understand life at
the minimum wage and thereabouts. The author works as a waitress, cleaning
woman and Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lives in low rent housing and finds
that no job is really "unskilled" and one job is never enough.
Nickel and Dimed has been described as sharp social criticism
and called an important book for anyone who has been lulled into middle-class
complacency.
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Links
for this book:
Pif
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Also
by this author:
Witches,
Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers; The Feminist Press
at CUNY; April 1983
Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment; Doubleday
& Company, Incorporated; May 1984
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women; Doubleday
& Company, Incorporated; March 1989
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