The Resource Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
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The item Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 221 pages
- Contents
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- Getting ready
- Serving in Florida
- Scrubbing in Maine
- Selling in Minnesota
- Evaluation
- Isbn
- 9780805063882
- Label
- Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
- Title
- Nickel and dimed
- Title remainder
- on (not) getting by in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Dewey number
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- 305.569/092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD4918
- LC item number
- .E375 2001
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Minimum wage
- Working poor
- Unskilled labor
- Poverty
- Label
- Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation
- Control code
- 45243324
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805063882
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 00052514
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation
- Control code
- 45243324
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805063882
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 00052514
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- unmediated
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