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Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed (Paperback, 2002, Holt Paperbacks)

The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late …

Review of 'Nickel and Dimed' on 'Goodreads'

In which an upper class white lady bumbles into the low-wage work force and discovers that -gasp- it's really hard! The pompousness in the tone was just a chore to slug through, despite the interesting concept. There's even a part where she feels marginalized in a grocery store for being in her maid uniform and wonders if 'this is what black people feel like'. Goodness gracious.