Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich with Matthew Desmond (Contributor)

224 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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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—can be the ticket t...

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