Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America /
Barbara Ehrenreich
- New York : A Metropolitan, 2001.
- 230 pages : 19 cm.
Read by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis.
Successful author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America obsessed with welfare "reform". What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead.
13: 9780805063899 Pbk., Bp.
Minimum wage--United States. Working poor--United States. Unskilled labor--United States. Poverty--United States.