TY - BOOK AU - EHRENREICH, Barbara TI - Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in American SN - 0-8050-6389-7 U1 - 305.569092 EHR 22nd ed. PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Metrpolitan/Owl Books KW - Minimum wage -- United States -- Drama. Working poor -- United States -- Drama. Unskilled labor -- United States -- Drama N2 - Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive, when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour job won't pay the rent: she'll have to do back-to-back shifts, as a chambermaid and a waitress. ... The play shows us the life a third of working Americans now lead, and makes us angry that anyone should have to live it ER -