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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0805063897
- ISBN 13
- 9780805063899
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Owl Books, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Wraps bright & crisp with only lightest of shelf & edge wear and no tears or creases. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Contains a Reading Group Guide at the end. 230 pages.
Synopsis
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She 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. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. 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. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. 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 int to live indoors.Nickel 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. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000864
- Title
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
- Author
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0805063897
- ISBN 13
- 9780805063899
- Publisher
- Owl Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Minimum wage - United States, Unskilled Labor - United States, Poverty - United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of the 20th Century; Finance & Banking;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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