Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (20th Anniversary Edition)

ISBN-13:	9781250808318
Publisher:	Picador
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	49,574
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Nickel and Dimed is a publishing phenomenon that has sold more than two and a half million copies. Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage America-the story of Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart associate-has become an essential part of the national discourse. Now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.