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In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults who lack higher education survive. After working at Wal-Mart and as a waitress, she concluded that the working poor should be afforded more health care, housing assistance, and respect. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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"...Ehrenreich's account of trying to survive on the breadline in three American cities is shocking, touching and unexpectedly funny." - C. Koeman (Times Literary Supplement, 12/27/02)
"[A] clear-eyed portrait of how the bottom third lives, and a complacency-shaking expose of the dead-end-job economy." - Hisho Kurokawa (Entertainment Weekly, 5/25/01)
"[A] valuable and illuminating book." - Andrew Kerslake (New York Times Book Review, 5/13/01)
"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." - (Nation, 6/11/01)
"NICKEL AND DIMED is one of the most significant works of social criticism any American leftist has written since the 1960s." - Huw Price (Nation, 10/3/05)
"Sharp, empathetic, astute...." - (Kirkus, 4/1/01)
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