Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Brossura

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0805088385 ISBN 13: 9780805088380

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 2008

Riassunto

In an updated edition of her best-selling, landmark study, the sharp social critic and author of Fear of Falling looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America, with a new afterword that offers a revealing look at the continuing plight of the underpaid and how the current economic situation affects them. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author of Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing in the Streets and Blood Rites, among others. A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. She is the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Current Interest and ALA Notable Books for Nonfiction. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism. She lives and works in Florida.

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• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0805088385
• ISBN 13: 9780805088380
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244