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Ehrenreich Barbara - Nickel And Dimed On (Not) Getting By In America (20th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
Ehrenreich Barbara - Nickel And Dimed On (Not) Getting By In America (20th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
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Description: The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond author of Evicted 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 intend 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. And now in a new foreword Matthew Desmond author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City explains why twenty years on in America Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Title: Nickel And Dimed On (Not) Getting By In America (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author(s): Ehrenreich Barbara
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250808318
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Industrial Relations
Description: The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond author of Evicted 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 intend 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. And now in a new foreword Matthew Desmond author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City explains why twenty years on in America Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Title: Nickel And Dimed On (Not) Getting By In America (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author(s): Ehrenreich Barbara
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250808318
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Industrial Relations
