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Apr 1,  · 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. 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. . Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America By BARBARA EHRENREICH Metropolitan Books. Read the ReviewMissing: Pdf. 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. The experiment took place in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota, with the author finding a job and lodgings in each location. 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 and most original social critic goes undercover as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Nickel and Dimed opens a window into the daily lives of the invisible workforce that fuels the service economy, and endows the men and women who populate it with the honor that is often lacking on the job. Apr 1, · 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. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how prosperity looks from the bottom. Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich. p. cm. ISBN (pbk.) 1. Minimum wage - United States. 2. Unskilled labor - United States. 3. Poverty - United States. I. Title. HDE 'dc21 [B] Henry Holt books are available for special promotions and premiums. Feb 14, · The author, a liberal culturalist, decided to examine the lives of women attempting to live in America on $6 or $7 an hour. She traveled from near her home in Florida through Maine to Minnesota, to see how the bottom third of wage earners live.