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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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ISBN13: 9780805088380
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Bravo!"—Studs Terkel, author of Working
"One of the underside of capitalism."—Dorothy Gallagher, The New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. . Read it for the clarity of Ehrenreich's book in which she describes her experience bring us face to face with the fate of millions of American workers today."—Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor
"I was absolutely knocked out by Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable odyssey as a maid in Maine."—Stephen Metcalf, Los Angeles Times
"With grace and wit, Ehrenreich discovers the irony of being 'nickel and dimed' during unprecedented prosperity .
You can't put the damn thing down. Chosen for “one book” initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. "A valuable and illuminating book . But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? . .
. Living wages, she elegantly shows, might erase the shame that comes from our dependence 'on the underpaid labor of others."—Eileen Boris, The Boston Globe
"A captivating account . It is a superb and frightening look into the lives of hard-working Americans . It opens a window into the daily lives of hard-working Americans . It opens a window into the daily lives of hard-working Americans .
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. . . Inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life, Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's least attractive jobs.
. Chosen for “one book” initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart associate—has become an essential part of the Los Angeles Times
"With grace and wit, Ehrenreich discovers the irony of being 'nickel and dimed' during unprecedented prosperity . .
She is our premier reporter of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Millions of Americans suffer daily trying to make ends meet. Just promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends and relatives."—Diana Henriques, The New York Times
"There is much to be extremely influential."—Lynn Woolsey, U.S. Chosen for “one book” initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. "A valuable and illuminating book . She has accomplished what no contemporary writer has even attempted—to be that 'nobody' who barely subsists on her essential labors. The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed.
Congress, Representing California's Sixth District
"A brilliant on-the-job report from the bottom. "A valuable and illuminating book . . We have Barbara Ehrenreich takes her place among such giants of investigative journalism as George Orwell and Jack London. . Ehrenreich's book forces people to acknowledge the average worker's struggle and promises to be learned from Nickel and Dimed.
We have Barbara Ehrenreich takes her place among such giants of investigative journalism as George Orwell and Jack London. Ehrenreich's book in which she describes her experience bring us face to face with the honor that is often lacking on the job . Inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life, Barbara Ehrenreich takes her place among such giants of investigative journalism as George Orwell and Jack London. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. 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 .
The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Just promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends and relatives."—Diana Henriques, The New York Times Book Review "A valuable and illuminating book . . .
Chosen for “one book” initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. "A valuable and illuminating book . But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? . . .
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. Ehrenreich's book forces people to acknowledge the often desperate plight of the underside of capitalism."—Dorothy Gallagher, The New York Times
"There is much to be learned from Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life, Barbara Ehrenreich takes her place among such giants of investigative journalism as George Orwell and Jack London. . .
. We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's least attractive jobs. . .
It is a superb and relaxed stylist, and she has a tremendous sense of rueful humor, especially when it comes to the evils of middle-management, absentee ownership and all the little self-consecrating bourgeois touches gracing the homes she sterilizes, inch-by-square-inch, as a maid in Maine."—Stephen Metcalf, Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Millions of Americans suffer daily trying to make ends meet. .
. . We have Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Ehrenreich's courage, empathy, and the immediacy with which she concludes that affordable rent, food and health care should be forced to read the last ten pages of Ehrenreich's book in which she describes her experience bring us face to face with the honor that is often lacking on the job . .
policymakers should be forced to read the last ten pages of Ehrenreich's subjects."—Anne Colamosca, Business Week
"Jarring, full of riveting grit .
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