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- catalog abstract "Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.".
- catalog contributor b12027751.
- catalog coverage "Minneapolis (Minn.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Minnesota Economic conditions.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description "Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.".
- catalog extent "221 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0805063889 (hc.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Metropolitan Books,".
- catalog spatial "Minneapolis (Minn.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Minnesota Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.569/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "HD4918 .E375 2001".
- catalog subject "Minimum wage United States.".
- catalog subject "Poverty United States.".
- catalog subject "Unskilled labor United States.".
- catalog subject "Working poor United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation.".
- catalog title "Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich.".
- catalog type "Creative nonfiction. lcgft".
- catalog type "text".