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005			20251028093023.0
008			020423s2002 nyu b 000 0 eng d
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090			_aHD 4918 .E375 2002 c.2
100	1		_aEhrenreich, Barbara.
245	1	0	_aNickel and dimed : _bon (not) getting by in America / _cBarbara Ehrenreich.
250			_a1st Owl Books ed.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bHenry Holt, _c2002.
300			_a230 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_a"A Metropolitan/Owl book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation -- Reader's guide.
520			_aMillions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich 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. So began a grueling, hair raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich 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.
650		0	_aMinimum wage _zUnited States.
650		0	_aUnskilled labor _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPoverty _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWorking poor _zUnited States.
655		7	_aPopular Works [Publication Type] _2local
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