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Book Documents Poverty of Means and of Spirit Among Low-Wage Workers Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America is a rich addition to an already rich tradition of progressive reporting -- of documentation that would lead to positive social change... |
Salon.com June 4, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
How the other 1 percent lives Whether you're wanting or wealthy, it's getting tougher to eke out a comfortable living these days, two new tomes reveal... |
BusinessWeek September 12, 2005 Susan Berfield |
Hard At (No) Work Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" is an insightful undercover investigation of the plight of the white-collar jobless. |
Fast Company October 2005 Lucas Conley |
Reading List: Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, takes on the white-collar world in her new book Bait and Switch. |
Salon.com April 27, 2001 King Kaufman |
$8.25 an hour in a million-dollar world It was hard for lower-end workers to make ends meet in the Bay Area of the dot-com boom. And it's still hard in the bust... |
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Aaron Bernstein |
Stuck in the Slow Lane Two more-scholarly books give the numbers behind the anecdotes in Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling Nickel & Dimed, showing how subpoverty jobs have become a permanent and growing blight on the U.S. economy. |
BusinessWeek October 15, 2009 Michelle Conlin |
Blinded by Optimism--from 9/11 to Subprime Barbara Ehrenreich says American positivity is a "mass delusion" partly to blame for the nation's recent ills. |