{"product_id":"nickel-and-dimed-9781250808318","title":"Nickel and Dimed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of \u003ci\u003eEvicted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMillions 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 jobany jobcan be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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 musc\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407311905111,"sku":"9781250808318","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250808318.jpg?v=1730498950","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nickel-and-dimed-9781250808318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}