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 enlarge | Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Category: Book
List Price: $23.00
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Rating:  1086 reviews
Sales Rank: 11655
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0805063889
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.569092
EAN: 9780805063882
ASIN: 0805063889
Publication Date: May 8, 2001
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Condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Text unmarked. Dust jacket in good shape. Great as a reading copy.
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 The Invisible Americans May 28, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found Nickel and Dimed to be a good book. I read it for my ESL class and it helped me to improve my vocaburaly even though it was so hard at the beginning. It was amazing to realize how some Americans being Americans - as Barbara said in Nickel and Dimed - being white, English speakers, struggle in their own land with an unreasonable economic system. Barbara shows very well how poor workers are unable to live with their wages. The working class experience incredible and some times inhuman circumstances just to survive. Nickel and Dimed shows some of the terrible working conditions, and the result of them in most of those workers. It shows also how the same system is designed - in my opinion - not to help and assist these people.
 My attitude to Nickel and Dimed May 25, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
My attitude about the book named "Nickel and Dimed" is that I think it is normal thing for me about how low wage-workers survive in their lives. They have to survive in the terrible situation because they have no choice. Poor people have to live in the car or small shelters incase they don't have their own house. They have to be insulted by many rich people. They are afraid to be fired because it is very difficult to find jobs. This information is not new for me. I think the strong part of this book is about the vocabulary. I can see how I improve my reading after reading this book. Because it is so difficult sentence and have a lot of vocabulary compared with other books. In the fact that I am an International student, it is difficult for me, but I think for American people, this book is very good. Barbara's sentences and detail can picture readers and express how she felt when she worked as the low-wage worker. I tell honestly that at the first time I buy this book, I think after I finish my study, I will ell it. Now I already change my mine. I want to keep this book and reread many time until I already master at reading. I string believe that this book can improve my reading. I am happy that my teacher uses this book for reading class. Thanks to my teacher, Heather. I can understand what you want from us.
 Nickel and Dimed is a must read! May 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is, by far, one of the best books that I have ever read. Ehrenreich is an extremely talented researcher and writer, and has a way with developing a connection with each and every one of her readers. In Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich manages to include an abundance of intense information, while producing a very easy read.
Barbara Ehrenreich tells the tale of what it is like to live the life that many Americans are forced to live. Ehrenreich leaves her life as lecturer/public speaker/writer temporarily behind to live the life that many of us are all too familiar with...living from paycheck to paycheck, making "minimum" wage, folding clothes at the local Wal-Mart, having to make a million phone calls in order to get any financial assistance, and taking numerous drug tests in order to stock products on shelves. She lives in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota, and works in various low wage jobs, including being a waitress at a diner, a maid, and a "team member" at Wal-Mart. She brilliantly communicates her many escapades and experiences living this life through complete wit and utter compassion. Ehrenreich offers conclusions and analysis of these living situations that will benefit her readers for years to come.
Despite the slightly dated data referenced to during the course of the text, the material discussed by Ehrenreich is even more relevant in today's economy.
 Wrong style and downright annoying May 8, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Rarely do I ever read something that I actually end up hating after one chapter. However, this book was one of the few that does not get a good review from me. I found almost everything about the way this book was written to be absolutely frustrating and downright annoying. The way the information is presented does not fit the content and the author herself came across as conceited and arrogant. There were also parts of this book that were just completely irrelevant to the content and had I been Ms. Ehrenreich's editor I would have had them removed because they detracted from the actual content.
The idea of this experiment, for a lack of a better word, is a novel one and I admire her for actually going through with it. Nevertheless, when she compiled this book far too many parts of it completely bothered the reader. She makes references to her college level education and her PhD as if these things actually matter when working a minimum wage job.
For the sake of keeping this short all I can say is that I was sorely disappointed in this book, as was the rest of my Modern U.S. History class. It could have been a lot better.
 Nickel & Dimed May 5, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was an enjoyable book to read. Simple and to the point. Barbara really got down into the trenches with America's low paid employees.
She experienced their everyday routines and the headache of stretching their incomes, and gives some insight into the rules and personalities of their boss's attitudes.
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