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050	0	0	_aHD4918 _b.E375 2011
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100	1		_aEhrenreich, Barbara. _eauthor _912025
245	1	0	_aNickel and dimed : _bon (not) getting by in America / _cBarbara Ehrenreich.
250			_a1st Picador ed.
260			_aNew York : _bPicador, _c2011.
300			_a244 pages ; _c21 cm
500			_a"With a new afterword"--Cover.
520			_a"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 strategems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything--from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal--quite the same way again. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMinimum wage _zUnited States. _912026
650		0	_aWorking poor _zUnited States. _912027
650		0	_aUnskilled labor _zUnited States. _912028
650		0	_aPoverty _zUnited States. _912029
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