Title
"Cover Story" piece on "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" writt
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
Recommended Citation
King, Loren, ""Cover Story" piece on "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" writt" (2001). Maine News Index – Portland Phoenix. 407.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_phoenix/407
Source
Portland Phoenix