Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by KLEIN, JULIA M.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt, 221 pages, $23.00.
Women's work in America can be an ugly business--hard, repetitive labor, usually for low wages and male bosses. There is the pink-collar ghetto of retail and office jobs, and then there is worse: employment in sweatshops and fastfood restaurants and domestic service. For uneducated women, for women without choices who are leaving welfare or leaving home, this is often what work entails.
Recently the "living wage" movement has been ...
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