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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America

Title
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich.
Author
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Publication
New York : Henry Holt & Co., [2008], ©2008.

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244 pages; 21 cm
Summary
Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead.
Subject
  • Minimum wage > United States
  • Working poor > United States
  • Unskilled labor > United States
  • Poverty > United States
Note
  • Originally published in hardcover in 2001 by Metropolitan Books ; first Holt Paperbacks edition, 2002.
Contents
Introduction: Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation -- Reader's guide.
ISBN
  • 9780805088380
  • 0805088385
OCLC
  • ocn182737658
  • SCSB-9052609
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries