Nickel and dimed, on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
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Nickel and dimed, on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
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Nickel and dimed
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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on (not) getting by in America
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Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, [the author of this book] decided to join them. She 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. 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. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled, " that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors
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