Nickel and Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich

About the book

Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich abandons her middle-class life to work a series of minimum-wage jobs—waitressing, house cleaning, retail—attempting to survive on $6-7 per hour in different American cities. Her immersive experiment exposes the brutal mathematics of low-wage work, where even the most determined efforts often aren't enough to afford basic housing, food, and dignity.

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