Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America - Brossura

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 1847082629 ISBN 13: 9781847082626

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2010

Riassunto

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone could survive on six to seven dollars an hour. Ehrenreich left home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find and accepted whatever job she was offered, from cleaning to care work, waitressing to folding clothes at Wal-Mart. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America.

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Recensione:

'A superb book' -- Decca Aitkenhead, Guardian

'An extraordinary Orwellian testimony to how tough American working life is for the bottom 20 per cent' -- Will Hutton

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

'Brilliant, gripping and extraordinarily timely, this is a book about collective blindness that will change the way you see' -- Naomi Klein

'This book is about the kinds of relationships we have with other human beings...a book that must be read' -- Geoff Dyer, Independent on Sunday

'This is a book about collective blindness that will change the way you see' -- Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

'We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's working poor.' --New York Times Book Review

This account of being exploited in an affluent world is elevated by her humanity and humour. --Sunday Times Cultures' 100 Books to Love

L'autore:

Barbara Ehrenreich writes regularly for Time, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Guardian. She lives in Virginia, USA.

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• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847082629
• ISBN 13: 9781847082626
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240