by Barbara Ehrenreich · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862075214
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«Nickel and Dimed» is Barbara Ehrenreich's journalistic essay, published by Granta Books in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover as an unskilled worker in Florida, Maine and Minnesota in the late 1990s. As a waitress, cleaner and Wal-Mart employee, she finds that the minimum wage is not enough to live on, even with advantages like education and savings. A critical portrait of precarious work and poverty in the United States.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the ALA Alex Award. This edition includes an introduction by Polly Toynbee.
For non-fiction readers who want a documented and critical look at precarious work and poverty in the United States.
Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.
