Nickel and Dimed

Undercover in Low-Wage America

Barbara Ehrenreich author Polly Toynbee editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:1st Apr '21

£9.99

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Nickel and Dimed cover

A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.

Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Leaving her home, she took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity? exposing the darker side of American prosperity and the true cost of the American dream.

'An extraordinary achievement...surely one of the most gripping political books ever written' - Observer

'A valuable and illuminating book...Barbara Ehrenreich is now our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism' - New York Times

ISBN: 9781783787548

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm

Weight: 173g