Nickel and Dimed

Name: Nickel and Dimed
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Undercover investigation of low-wage work in contemporary America

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Barbara Ehrenreich

American journalist and political activist whose Nickel and Dimed went undercover in the minimum-wage economy to document the working poor's conditions. Bright-Sided examined the cultural insistence on positive thinking. She wrote with wit and anger about poverty, health, and American capitalism.

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