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PublisherPicador
ISBN-101250808316
ISBN-139781250808318
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Book TitleNickel and Dimed : on (Not) Getting by in America (20th Anniversary Edition)
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSocial Classes & Economic Disparity, Poverty & Homelessness, Economic Conditions, Labor
Publication Year2021
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics
AuthorBarbara Ehrenreich
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.1 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.7 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Captivating . . . promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends and relatives." -- The New York Times "Impassioned, fascinating, profoundly significant, and wildly entertaining . . . Nickel and Dimed is not only important but transformative in its insistence that we take a long hard look at the society we live in." --Francise Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine "Valuable and illuminating . . . Barbara Ehrenreich is our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism." -- The New York Times Book Review "Jarring . . . fully of riveting grit . . . this book is already unforgettable." -- The New York Times "Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four." --Diane Sawyer "Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul." --Molly Ivins "Ehrenreich is passionate, public, hotly lucid, and politically engaged." -- Chicago Tribune "Ehrenreich's scorn withers, her humor stings, and her radical light shines on." -- The Boston Globe "One of today's most original writers." -- The New York Times, "Captivating . . . promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends and relatives." -- The New York Times "Impassioned, fascinating, profoundly significant, and wildly entertaining . . . Nickel and Dimed is not only important but transformative in its insistence that we take a long hard look at the society we live in." --Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine "Valuable and illuminating . . . Barbara Ehrenreich is our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism." -- The New York Times Book Review "Jarring . . . fully of riveting grit . . . this book is already unforgettable." -- The New York Times "Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four." --Diane Sawyer "Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul." --Molly Ivins "Ehrenreich is passionate, public, hotly lucid, and politically engaged." -- Chicago Tribune "Ehrenreich's scorn withers, her humor stings, and her radical light shines on." -- The Boston Globe "One of today's most original writers." -- The New York Times
Dewey Decimal305.5/69092 B
Table Of ContentCONTENTS Foreword to the 20th Anniversary Edition Introduction: Getting Ready One. Serving in Florida Two. Scrubbing in Maine Three. Selling in Minnesota Evaluation A Reader's Guide
SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. 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. 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. 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. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. 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. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City , explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever., Nickel and Dimed is a publishing phenomenon that has sold more than two and a half million copies. Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage America-the story of Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart associate-has become an essential part of the national discourse. Now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever. Book jacket.
