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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Awards
New York Times Notable Book for 2001
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity — a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.
Review:
"Ehrenreich's scorn withers, her humor stings, and her radical light shines on." The Boston Globe
Review:
"Ehrenreich is passionate, public, hotly lucid, and politically engaged." Chicago Tribune
Review:
"We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's working poor so clearly and directly, and conveying with it a deep moral outrage and a finely textured sense of lives as lived. As Michael Harrington was, she is now our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism." Dorothy Gallagher, New York Times Book Review
Review:
"Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four." Diane Sawyer
Review:
"Nickel and Dimed is an important book that should be read by anyone who has been lulled into middle-class complacency." Vivien Labaton, Ms. Magazine
Review:
"[Ehrenreich's] account is at once enraging and sobering....Mandatory reading for any workforce entrant." School Library Journal
Review:
"Jarring, full of riveting grit....This book is already unforgettable." Susannah Meadows, Newsweek
Synopsis:
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages. Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich joined them, moving into a trailer and working as a waitress, hotel maid, and Wal-Mart sales clerk. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and duality.
About the Author
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller The Worst Years of Our Lives, as well as Fear of Falling and Blood Rites. She lives near Key West, Florida.
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Lauren Wyhs, January 28, 2008 (view all comments by Lauren Wyhs)
This is a good introduction to the working poor in this country and why upward mobility is so difficult to attain for so many people. The writing style is very engaging and easy to read, more like a novel than nonfiction, with occasional analysis by the author.
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jamesefeldmann, March 17, 2007 (view all comments by jamesefeldmann)
The breif line that I read in the book about not treating all people with Dignity and respect know matter what type of work, is a road to a society of me me me me. I dont Know how it happen but we treat animals better than we treat our own brothers and sisters on this planet.
People will come and people will go from life,and when you leave this life, for Eternity you can watch how you treated people.
James E Feldmann IBEW local # 25
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poetinplaid, November 15, 2006 (view all comments by poetinplaid)
I read this book in college for my "Problems in Society" class. It opened up the eyes of the higher middle class and upper class students that were around me. They then understood why many of us on campus were tired or sick.
I recommend this book to my students all the time. ANY student that refuses to work in your class should be required to read this so that they can correct themselves before having such a life in their future.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780805063899
- Subtitle:
- On (Not) Getting By in America
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Editor:
- Shara, Kay
- Editor:
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Editor:
- Kay, Shara
- Publisher:
- Holt Paperbacks
- Location:
- New York, N.Y.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- American
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- U.S. Government
- Subject:
- Sociology - Social Theory
- Subject:
- Poverty
- Subject:
- Minimum wage
- Subject:
- Unskilled labor.
- Subject:
- Labor & Industrial Relations - General
- Subject:
- Government - U.S. Government
- Subject:
- SOC045000
- Subject:
- Economic Conditions
- Copyright:
- 2002
- Edition Number:
- 1st Owl Books ed.
- Edition Description:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Series:
- Spare Change?
- Series Volume:
- 02-2079S
- Publication Date:
- May 2002
- Binding:
- TP
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 8.28x5.58x.65 in. .48 lbs.
