Nickel And Dimed

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9781847082626
  • : Granta Books
  • : Granta Books
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  • : August 2010
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : 22.99
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  • : Barbara Ehrenreich
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  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9781847082626
9781847082626

Description

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, in order to find out how anyone survives on six to seven dollars an hour. Ehrenreich left home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find and accepted whatever job she was offered, from cleaning to care work, waitressing to folding clothes at Wal-Mart. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America.

Author description

Barbara Ehrenreich writes regularly for Time, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Guardian. She lives in Virginia, USA.