- Immigrants, united states, Poor, Poverty, Working poor
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
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Earnest, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks, Perfection Learning Corporation, Wydawn. W.A.B.
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Japanese, Spanish, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780805080278
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“Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city.”
"Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America." - Wikipedia
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