Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312626681 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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ILikeClothes said I get it. I'm living it.. I got this book on the advice of my pastor after I lost my newspaper job. I have a part-time job cleaning offices and couldn't believe how physically hard and mentally challenging it is, and he recommended Ehrenreich's story. All I can say is she's right on. People who criticize her method are missing the larger point; Ehrenreich shows how hard it is to make it -- let alone get ahead -- on low wages. This should be the wake-up cal. Brought out some ideas I'd like to start out by saying I did like and appreciate this book. That being said I had problems with it. This could be that reading this book in 201Brought out some ideas fun game I'd like to start out by saying I did like and appreciate this book. That being said I had problems with it. This could be that reading this book in 2014 we actually are in a recession, or as I constantly hear on the news "emerging" from a recession. Having worked in many a low income job myself, I did find myself a bit annoyed with the with the writer at times. One thing that I disliked was that she only seemed to spend a short t. we actually are in a recession, or as I constantly hear on the news "emerging" from a recession. Having worked in many a low income job myself, I did find myself a bit annoyed with the with the writer at times. One thing that I disliked was that she only seemed to spend a short t. I recommend this book to anyone who who wants a better diane What an eye opener! Very well written, with the verbiage of someone who's "been there" to expose what the blue collar worker has to deal with every day. (I know my sentence structure is sketchy in itself). This expose has truly defined what the "should be" middle class, hard working, dedicated employee's struggle is to make a living. I will never again look at an employee at Walmart or server at X chain restaurant the same way aga
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. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Moving from Florida to
Even in her best-case scenario, with all the advantages of education, health, a car, and money for first month's rent, she has to work two jobs, seven days a week, and still almost winds up in a shelter. --Lesley Reed. So, do the poor have survival strategies unknown to the middle class? And did Ehrenreich feel the "bracing psychological effects of getting out of the house, as promised by the wonks who brought us welfare reform?" Nah. So she did what millions of Americans do, she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet. Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. Rather, jobs are so cheap as measured by the pay that workers are encouraged to take as many as they