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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001, Hardcover)
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In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults wh...Read more
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I had purchase the book to read over the summer for an English AP class I'll be taking this fall in high school. Given that it was mandatory, I didn't think that I would enjoy...Read more
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001, Hardcover)
Author: Barbara EhrenreichPublisher: Metropolitan BooksFormat: Hardcover
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In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults who lack higher education survive. After working at Wal-Mart and as a waitress, she concluded that the working poor should be afforded more health care, housing assistance, and respect. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Publisher's Note
The sharp social critic and author ofBlood Rites looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America.
Industry Reviews
"[A] clear-eyed portrait of how the bottom third lives, and a complacency-shaking expose of the dead-end-job economy."
Entertainment Weekly - Megan Harlan (05/25/2001)
"[A] valuable and illuminating book."
New York Times Book Review - Dorothy Gallagher (05/13/2001)
"Sharp, empathetic, astute...."
Kirkus Reviews (04/01/2001)
"...Ehrenreich's account of trying to survive on the breadline in three American cities is shocking, touching and unexpectedly funny."
Times Literary Supplement - Joan Smith (12/27/2002)
"NICKEL AND DIMED is one of the most significant works of social criticism any American leftist has written since the 1960s."
Nation - Michael Kazin (10/03/2005)
"Half-assed as her attempts to learn unfamiliar jobs may have been--and as funny as she sometimes makes the experience seem--Ehrenreich is still engaged in a serious project."
Nation (06/11/2001)
In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults who lack higher education survive. After working at Wal-Mart and as a waitress, she concluded that the working poor should be afforded more health care, housing assistance, and respect. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
| Key Details | |
| Author: | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Publisher: | Metropolitan Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: | 0805063889 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780805063882 |
| Size | |
| Length: | 221 pages |
Publisher's Note
The sharp social critic and author of
Industry Reviews
Entertainment Weekly - Megan Harlan (05/25/2001)
New York Times Book Review - Dorothy Gallagher (05/13/2001)
Kirkus Reviews (04/01/2001)
Times Literary Supplement - Joan Smith (12/27/2002)
Nation - Michael Kazin (10/03/2005)
Nation (06/11/2001)
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Nickel and Dimed Review
Created: 09/08/07
I had purchase the book to read over the summer for an English AP class I'll be taking this fall in high school. Given that it was mandatory, I didn't think that I would enjoy, being that I never really enjoy books that are forced upon me. Well, the book was excellent. It really gives an accurate insight into our economy with the perfect amount of side commentary. The author describes how she works as a cleaning maid, and that chapter hit me the hardest. My mother works as a freelance cleaning maid, and I felt the relevence, how this was everyday America. It's a really good read.
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