Nickel and dimed (Record no. 220721)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0805063889
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency Al
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title Eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 305.569
Item number EHRN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Barbara Ehrenreich
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9 (RLIN) 10762
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Nickel and dimed
Remainder of title On (not) getting by in America
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Metropolitan Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 221P.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 21.5x14cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.<br/>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.<br/>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
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Minimum wage -- United States
9 (RLIN) 10763
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Unskilled labor -- United States
9 (RLIN) 10764
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Poverty -- United States
9 (RLIN) 10765
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name EHRENREICH (Barbara)
9 (RLIN) 10766
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type George Fernandes Collections
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Sociology St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   305.569 EHRN GF03528 11/23/2021 11/23/2021 George Fernandes Collections