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Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America
 

Nickel and Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone survives on six dollars an hour. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey though the underworld of working America. (read review)

Top tags: nonfiction,  sociology,  economics,  non-fiction,  poverty (all tags)

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