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Nickel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (Picador Modern Classics)
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Beautifully Repackaged As Part Of The Picador Modern Classics Series, This Special Edition Is Small Enough To Fit In Your Pocket And Bold Enough To Stand Out On Your Bookshelf.A Publishing Phenomenon When First Published, Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel And Dimed Is A Revelatory Undercover Investigation Into Life And Survival In Lowwage America, An Increasingly Urgent Topic That Continues To Resonate.Millions Of Americans Work Full Time, Year Round, For Povertylevel Wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich Decided To Join Them. She Was Inspired In Part By The Rhetoric Surrounding Welfare Reform, Which Promised That A Jobany Jobcan 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 Nursinghome Aide, And A Walmart 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 In To Live Indoors.Nickel And Dimed Reveals Lowrent America In All Its Tenacity, Anxiety, And Surprising Generositya Land Of Big Boxes, Fast Food, And A Thousand Desperate Stratagems For Survival. Read It For The Smoldering Clarity Of Ehrenreichs Perspective And For A Rare View Of How Prosperity Looks From The Bottom. You Will Never See Anythingfrom A Motel Bathroom To A Restaurant Mealin Quite The Same Way Again.
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