![]() 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. She also learned that one job is not enough you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. Muckraking journalist Barbara Ehrenreichs bestselling expose of the brutality of Americas working-class economy as she attempts to survive minimum wage. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job - any job. 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. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. ![]() 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. 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. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. ![]() Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. ![]()
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