5/30/2023 0 Comments Nickel and dimed full book![]() She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job–any job–can be the ticket to a better life. ![]() In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes “undercover” as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. ![]()
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