This is a great book. “Nickel and Dimed” gets at the corrosive dynamics of poverty.
@therealnews.com25 years ago today, the late Barbara Ehrenreich released her masterwork Nickel and Dimed, where she went undercover to report on the daily realities working people in America face trying to get by on minimum-wage.
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There’s no such thing as ‘unskilled work’: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Nickel and Dimed’ 25 years later
25 years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich saw the inhumane brutality of capitalism and the invisible realities of working-class life that so many Americans ignored then but can’t ignore now.