Author Info:
Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-
Barbara Ehrenreich is that rarest of breeds, a 21st century American who still clings to the tenets of Socialism. At the suggestion of Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's, she decided to try to see how folks moving from welfare to work might be faring and if she could survive on the minimal income provided by a series of low level jobs. Allowing herself a small amount of startup money, she went to Key West, FL; Orchard Beach, ME; and Minneapolis, MN; and found work and a place to live, with a goal of saving enough by the end of the month to pay the next month's rent. Her jobs consisted of waitressing and working as a hotel maid in Florida, working at a nursing home and a house cleaning service in Maine, and at Wal-Mart in Minnesota. Her essays about this experience first appeared in Harper's but are here expanded, barely, to a book length account in which we find out much about Barbara Ehrenreich, fairly little about the difficult lives of......

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Title: Nicked And Dimed
Approximate Word Count: 2071
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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