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"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
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ZIN Product Number: 10285635
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 221 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 0805063889
Release Date: Jan 9, 1990
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
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 -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair-raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America.
Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. 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-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems 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.
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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
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-- A reviewer, an elementary teacher, September 10, 2002
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-- S. Adams, studying literature @ University, September 7, 2002
The Amazing Shrinking Middle Class of America?
-- S.G. Adams, teaches graphics, September 7, 2002
The Working Poor Still Believe in the Work Ethic 
-- Thomas Miezejeski, author of "The Meaning of Life", September 11, 2002
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Inspired in part by the national debate about welfare reform, Ehrenreich spent one year working at various minimum wage jobs in order to investigate the physical and psychological stresses faced by America's working poor
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul. —Molly Ivins
Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four. —Diane Sawyer
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