Nickel And Dimed: Undercover In Low Wage America

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

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  • : 9781862075214
  • : Granta Books
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  • : 01 June 2002
  • : 196mm X 131mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Work & labour; Labour economics; Poverty; Unemployment
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Description

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone survives on six dollars an hour. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey though the underworld of working America.

Author description

Barbara Ehrenreich writes regularly for Time, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Guardian. She lives near Key West, Florida.