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008			210113s2021 nyu e b 000 0 eng d
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020			_a1250808316 _q(paperback)
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050		4	_aHD4918 _b.E375 2021
082	1	4	_a305.569092
100	1		_aEhrenreich, Barbara, _eauthor. _9185
245	1	0	_aNickel and dimed : _bon (not) getting by in America / _cBarbara Ehrenreich.
250			_a20th anniversary edition.
250			_a20th anniversary Picador paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPicador : _bMetropolitan Books : _bHenry Holt and Company, _c2021.
300			_axvi, 228 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"With a new foreword by Matthew Desmond"--Cover.
500			_aIncludes reader's guide (pages 225-228).
500			_aOriginally published in 2001.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aForeword to the 20th anniversary edition / Matthew Desmond -- Introduction : getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation -- A reader's guide.
520			_aMillions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. 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. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," and 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. This work reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity, a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategems for survival. Read it for the author's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything, from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal, quite the same way again.
650		0	_aMinimum wage _zUnited States. _9186
650		0	_aWorking poor _zUnited States. _9187
650		0	_aUnskilled labor _zUnited States. _9188
650		0	_aPoverty _zUnited States. _9189
655		7	_aCreative nonfiction. _2lcgft _9190
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