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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (20th Anniversary Edition)
Twenty years ago, a national debate about welfare inspired Barbara Ehrenreich to see if she could support herself on minimum wage. She took the cheapest lodging available, any minimum wage job offered, and tried to make it work. This book helped set a path for writers to dig into complicated social issues with personal narrative (books like Maid, Heartland and Nomadland), framing how we talk about these issues even now. As relevant today as it was when first published, this anniversary edition includes a foreword by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted.
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“Captivating . . . promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends and relatives.”
—The New York Times
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted.
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Eh...
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