Name: Nickel and Dimed: On not Getting by in America
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Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9781250808318

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Nickel and Dimed: On not Getting by in America

Type

Physical Book

Author

Barbara Ehrenreich

Publisher

Picador

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781250808318

Synopsis "Nickel and Dimed: On not Getting by in America "

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.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Essayist and social activist from the United States. From 1991 to 1997, he was a regular columnist for Time magazine and has written for publications such as The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Z Magazine. Since August 2005, he writes for The Progressive newspaper. Essayist and social activist from the United States. From 1991 to 1997, he was a regular columnist for Time magazine and has written for publications such as The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Z Magazine. Since August 2005, he writes for The Progressive newspaper.

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