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Search - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Cloth))
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Nickel and Dimed On Getting by in America - Not - Wheeler Large Print Book Series Cloth Author: 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 tha... more »
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Cindy (summerlady46) reviewed Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Cloth)) on + 44 more book reviews
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This book is a comment on the sorry state of a huge segment of our population. Unfortunately they are still better off than many others in this richest country in the world. Ehrenreich gives the reader some insight into why people in this group more or less give up and just stumble on through life. Well-written and very interesting read.
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
- Nonfiction >> Current Events >> Poverty >> General