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Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity - a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Our sharpest Missing: Pdf. Aug 25, · Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In , the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare Pages: Barbara Ehrenreich’s non-fiction bestseller, Nickel and Dimed, is the story of an essay writer who went undercover as a low wage worker to find out how non-skilled workers make ends meet. . A book that has changed assumptions about American prosperity and hardship, Nickel and Dimed makes an especially compelling selection for reading groups. The questions that follow are designed to enhance your personal understanding or group discussion of this provocative, heartfelt—and funny—account of life in the low-wage trenches. 1. From: Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America By Barbara Ehrenreich Between and , journalist Barbara Ehrenreich went “undercover” as a low wage worker to see if she, a woman with a Ph.d, could get by work-ing minimum wage jobs. She couldn’t. Barbara Ehrenreich’s non-fiction bestseller, Nickel and Dimed, is the story of an essay writer who went undercover as a low wage worker to find out how non-skilled workers make ends meet. The experiment took place in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota, with the author finding a job and lodgings in each location.
