Nickel and Dimed

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. About The Author: BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of nearly twenty books, including Nickel & Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage USA. She is a frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, The Progressive, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine and the Guardian, and has also written for The Times and the New Statesman. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Milioane de americani lucreaza cu norma intreaga, pe tot parcursul anului, pentru salarii la nivel de saracie. Distinsa jurnalista Barbara Ehrenreich a decis sa li se alature pentru a afla cum ar putea supravietui oricine cu sase pana la sapte dolari pe ora.