Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

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Baker & Taylor, CATS, Oct 4, 2008 - Business & Economics - 244 pages
In an updated edition of her best-selling, landmark study, the sharp social critic and author of Fear of Falling looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America, with a new afterword that offers a revealing look at the continuing plight of the underpaid and how the current economic situation affects them. Reprint.

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About the author (2008)

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.

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