Title

"Cover Story" piece on "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" writt

Authors

Loren King

Source

Portland Phoenix

Date

6-22-2001

Pages

12-13, 1

Abstract

"Cover Story" piece on "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. Ehrenreich chronicles a three-month odyssey as a low-wage worker in Florida, Minnesota, and here in Portland, Maine, where she worked weekends at a nursing home and during the week for Merry Maids, a cleaning company that charged customers $25 an hour but paid the cleaners just $6.75 an hour.

Subjects

Book reviews, Ehrenreich, Barbara

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