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4 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich

Granta Books, 2002

Everyone should read this.
It should be noted that this book is not, nor does it claim to be, a definitive and expansive report on the plight of the working poor. It functions as a personal memoir and a slice-of-life, an undercover view of a life that is intentionally made invisible to most members of the middle-to-upper classes. And the view it offers is harrowing. Ehrenreich allows herself a safety net not ...

Por Cuatro Duros/nickel And Dimed: Como (No) Apanarselas En Estados Unidos

2 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich

Rba Publicaciones Editores Revistas, 2003

From the perspective of a tourist
Nickeled and Dimed has an interesting premise: an upper middle class woman tries to live on wages of an unskilled jobs in three different locations in the US. Here Ehrenreich describes her experiences doing just that and tries to relate these experiences to a larger frame of reference by laying out statistics about the US. From having done this and that over the summers while in college and ...

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

1076 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich

Topeka Bindery, 2002

It IS Realistic!
This was me! For those who reviewed the book and said that Ehrenreich was "unrealistic", I'm going to share my story. Several years ago my ex-boyfriend and I could have been in the book; we were each working a full-time job and he also had TWO part-time jobs at the same time (one after his full-time job and another on the weekends). Our jobs were in electronic sales at a big chain store and ...

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

1 review

Owl Books, 2001

From the perspective of a tourist
Nickeled and Dimed has an interesting premise: an upper middle class woman tries to live on wages of an unskilled jobs in three different locations in the US. Here Ehrenreich describes her experiences doing just that and tries to relate these experiences to a larger frame of reference by laying out statistics about the US. From having done this and that over the summers while in college and ...

Nickel and Dimed

1 review

GRANTA BOOKS, 1806

From the perspective of a tourist
Nickeled and Dimed has an interesting premise: an upper middle class woman tries to live on wages of an unskilled jobs in three different locations in the US. Here Ehrenreich describes her experiences doing just that and tries to relate these experiences to a larger frame of reference by laying out statistics about the US. From having done this and that over the summers while in college and ...

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

4 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich

Holt Paperbacks, 2008

Everyone should read this.
It should be noted that this book is not, nor does it claim to be, a definitive and expansive report on the plight of the working poor. It functions as a personal memoir and a slice-of-life, an undercover view of a life that is intentionally made invisible to most members of the middle-to-upper classes. And the view it offers is harrowing. Ehrenreich allows herself a safety net not ...

Nickel And Dimed - On (not) Getting By In America

1 review
Barbara Ehrenreich

Metropolitan/Owl/Henry Holt, 2002

ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN...
This is a well-written, interesting, anecdotal book about a well-educated woman's sojourn among the working poor. If only the author had stopped there, the book still would have been a hit. Instead, the author chose to claim it to be representative undercover reportage. Unfortunately, she does not do this with any objectivity, as she views all that she does through liberal, rose colored glasses. ...

From welfare to what? Reading 'Nickel and Dimmed' opened Cricket White's eyes to the invisible Americans. ...
Cricket White

For A Change, 2003

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