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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Nonfiction Category: |
Biography & Autobiography • Business & Economics • Current Events • Social Science |
| Awards: |
2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award |
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Professional Reviews
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Nation: "Half-assed as her attempts to learn unfamiliar jobs may have been--and as funny as she sometimes makes the experience seem--Ehrenreich is still engaged in a serious project." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 230
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (May 01, 2002)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.5 lbs.
ISBN: 9780805063899 |
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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.<BR>Millions 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 -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour?<BR>To find out, Ehrenreich 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," 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 |
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