Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage USA

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Granta Books, 2002 - Business & Economics - 221 pages
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone survives on six dollars an hour. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey though the underworld of working America.

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Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich
No preview available - 2010
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America
Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich
No preview available - 2021

About the author (2002)

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.

Bibliographic information

TitleNickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage USA
AuthorBarbara Ehrenreich
Editionreprint
PublisherGranta Books, 2002
ISBN1862075212, 9781862075214
Length221 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / Labor / General
Business & Economics / Labor / Wages & Compensation
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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