Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich 2001

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
poverty labour capitalism America

Our Take

Ehrenreich goes undercover in low-wage America and discovers that the arithmetic of survival simply does not add up. Waitressing, hotel cleaning, Walmart stocking — none of it pays enough to live on, by design. The anger is controlled and therefore twice as devastating. A book that should be required reading for every politician who has ever used the word 'aspiration'.

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