Nickel and Dimed

A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.

About the author

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling Smile or Die and Nickel and Dimed. She has written for Time, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Guardian. She lives in Virginia, USA.Polly Toynbee is a political and social commentator for the Guardian. Previously she was the BBC's Social Affairs Editor and a columnist for the Independent and the Observer. She is the author of, among others, Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain, Hospital and Lost Children. With David Walker she has written two audits of Labour's first and second terms, Did Things Get Better? and Better or Worse?: Did Labour Deliver?

Summary

A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich Barbara
• Assisted by: Toynbee Polly (Introduction)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781783787548
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-754-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Memoirs, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, United States of America, USA, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, hired; james bloodworth