Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in American Barbara Ehrenreich

By:

EHRENREICH, Barbara

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Metrpolitan/Owl Books, 2002.Description: 230p. ; 21cmISBN:

0-8050-6389-7

Subject(s):

Minimum wage -- United States -- Drama. Working poor -- United States -- Drama. Unskilled labor -- United States -- Drama

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 305.569092 EHR

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	CUoM Library General Stacks	Social Science	305.569092 EHR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	00005556

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.

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