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Books : Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in AmericaIn association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
ISBN: 0965187705 Label: Metropolitan Books Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books Number Of Pages: 225 Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Studio: Metropolitan Books Sales Rank: 274504 Related Items:
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 Rating: - From the perspective of a touristNickeled and Dimed has an interesting premise: an upper middle class woman tries to live on wages of an unskilled jobs in three different locations in the US. Here Ehrenreich describes her experiences doing just that and tries to relate these experiences to a larger frame of reference by laying out statistics about the US. From having done this and that over the summers while in college and having spent the past year earning 3.85/hour plus room and board I can sort of compare my experiences ... Read More Rating: - ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN...This is a well-written, interesting, anecdotal book about a well-educated woman's sojourn among the working poor. If only the author had stopped there, the book still would have been a hit. Instead, the author chose to claim it to be representative undercover reportage. Unfortunately, she does not do this with any objectivity, as she views all that she does through liberal, rose colored glasses. Nor does she live as the truly working poor do, as her existence is isolated, cut off from all support systems. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: 
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