Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Edition: 10 Anv
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0312626681
Edition: 10 Anv
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0312626681
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.. Download books Nickel and Dimed: On for free.
Nickel and Dimed: On: Barbara Ehrenreich
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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 . Download Nickel and Dimed from rapidshare mediafire 4shared
Nickel and Dimed
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times bestseller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead.
Square Magnet. Nickel and Dimed to Death, a sarcastic shopping slogan for consumers buying gas or food, travelling or on vacation.
Show them you are sick of paying fees and extra charges.
Show them you are sick of paying fees and extra charges.
Softcover book, 240 pages. Published by Holt McDougal
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes 'undercover' as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. 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
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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. You can download Nickel and Dimed pdf for free. She
