Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich Audiobook
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Minimum Wage
Politics
Poverty
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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes “undercover” as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job — any job — can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. 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. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. 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 int to live indoors.
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity — a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich’s perspective and for a rare view of how “prosperity” looks from the bottom. You will never see anything — from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal — in quite the same way again.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
September 5th, 2019
Thanks a lot!
September 5th, 2019
Reading this will clear up why so many in this economic group voted for Trump, and why he targeted them: “I Love The Poorly Educated” -DJT
September 5th, 2019
Many thanks for this!
September 6th, 2019
CAG, yes Trump targeted poor voters, while Dems just derided and flew over them. Learn to Code.
These people were poor before and after Clinton, and Obama. And they would be poor under Hillary too.
Neither party establishment cares about them.
September 8th, 2019
The people that voted for Trump were more or less the same people that voted for Mitt Romney. 50% of the electorate don’t vote - the poorest 50%. The richer you are the more likely you’ll vote as policy is shaped to benefit wealthier segments of society.
September 30th, 2019
It’s beyond absurd to hear Trumps name somehow inserted into these comments. Let’s be clear, as Andy alluded to, the Democrats had the working class vote for decades and decades. They consistently failed to deliver on promises, and then outright decided to scapegoat them in the name of identity politics, for little more than to pander to what they see as the future voting block that will deliver them power minorities and coastal college kids .
They jumped the gun, and don’t have enough minority voters to make up for the working class windfall, but now can’t get back the working class after condescending to them for so long. So now the line is that the same working class they cast off, were Nazis unworthy of help, the whole time, and too stupid to vote for their own interests. Real noble stuff!
October 9th, 2019
jewwangle hits the nail on the head. I voted for Trump. Im a Democrat who voted for Clinton and Obama.
I voted for DJT becasue I wanted to upend the system…I was just so sure the Dems would finally see the light: Stop pandering to less than 1% of outlier populations and start getting back to Democrat roots like Jobs, living wages, union rights, labor protections, anti-trust legislation, no wars, smaller military, HEALTH CARE for all…where did all that go? Right into the pockets of the corrupt politicos who run congress thats where. They forgot about real red-blooded Americans who support the (smaller) military, hand the flag, own guns and are in the Union (or want to be) I will not vote for Trump Again. In fact I think a lot of Trump Voters will follow me over to Warren or Sanders. If Biden gets the nomination (What the Dems want because they know if he wins they are safe and if Trump wins they are safe) I will not vote. But if Warren gets it…Trimps voters will leave him in droves and Hillary supporters will turn out en mass!
November 13th, 2020
Please seed, thanks!
September 2nd, 2022
RIP great lady
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