Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Reprint
- Author: Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances Fox Piven
- Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
- Release Date: June 2008
- ISBN-10: 0805088385
- ISBN-13: 9780805088380
- List Price: $14.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for “one book” initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a living wage. 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 nation’s political discourse. Now, in a new afterword, Ehrenreich shows that the plight of the underpaid has in no way eased: with fewer jobs available, deteriorating work conditions, and no pay increase in sight, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Nickled and Dimed is a must read for everyone!
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This book is great. It will open your eyes to the not so fortunate people trying to get by. It is very powerful
How the other 3/4's Live
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Informative expose on how what it is like to try to survive on a paltry pay check.
Permenant change
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I rank a book as outstanding if it permenantly changes my behavior. And this book did. I read it several years ago and ever since then I have tipped the chamber maids in hotels. (and I travel a lot so that is lots of tips)
I read the reviews and saw many people were down on her for primarily 2 reasons:
1 - politics (they thought she was too liberal). What I say to that is politic often engenders overstatement and polarization. But life is more shades of grey than black and white.
2 - they are outraged that she purports to represent the poor when she is not. What I say to that is the book is not for the poor. It is targeted at waking up the better off and it does that. And if you are truly poor - it helps you. So support the book and encourage more to read it.
Good insight
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This book, though skewed by the author's self-imposed restrictions and her financial and health starting points, offers good insight into what it is like to live as a minimum wage worker. This copy in particular has an afterword that elaborates further on some changes that have occurred since the original publish date. Many will find that they can relate to her story and believe this to be a compelling argument to improve the conditions in this nation.
A Good Idea, A Good Book That Gets A Little Off Target at The End
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A good and valuable book that helps us understand and appreciate America's working class, especially those trying to get by on minimum wage in America. It's not easy, if not impossible.
Effectively lived and researched...you may never look a a person in the service industry the same way again. This book alone will make them more human to you, more a part of the same human race you are part of, and that's a good thing. As the author states, "the working poor are the biggest philanthropists to American way of life." Many of the "blessings we enjoy" come about because of the daily sacrifices and sometimes sufferings of the working poor..
Unfortuately the author somewhat loses her way toward the end of the book when she becomes more of a union organizer than a person telling a story we all ought to hear and need to hear.
The stories she tells stand alone without her call for action.
Her shift to union organizer and activist take away from the story she had so effectively told.
Still, however, this is a small criticism of a good and great book.
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