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Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

Hardcover • 2001 • English

Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

By Barbara Ehrenreich

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780805063882

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

Format

Hardcover

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