TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ehrenreich,Barbara
TI  - Nickel and Dimed : on (not) getting by in America 
SN  - 9780805063899 
U1  - 305.569092 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Henry Holt
KW  - Minimum wage
KW  - United States
KW  - Unskilled labor
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Working poor
KW  - Popular Works [Publication Type]
N1  - "A Metropolitan/Owl book."; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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
ER  -