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Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity - a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Our sharpest Missing: Pdf. Aug 25, · Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In , the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare Pages: Barbara Ehrenreich’s non-fiction bestseller, Nickel and Dimed, is the story of an essay writer who went undercover as a low wage worker to find out how non-skilled workers make ends meet. . A book that has changed assumptions about American prosperity and hardship, Nickel and Dimed makes an especially compelling selection for reading groups. The questions that follow are designed to enhance your personal understanding or group discussion of this provocative, heartfelt—and funny—account of life in the low-wage trenches. 1. Using a journalistic approach, Barbara Ehrenreich immerses herself in low-wage jobs to reveal the realities faced by the working poor in America in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. This book challenges readers' perceptions of class and social stratification, highlighting the difficulties and indignities experienced by low. Aug 23, · Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America. Reprint of first Holt Paperbacks edition, With new afterword.