Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
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Nickel And Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel And Dimed Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Nickel And Dimed book, Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.

Author: Joan Holden
Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service
Release Date: 2005
Book Size: 56.39 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 67
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Nickel And Dimed

by Joan Holden, Nickel And Dimed Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Nickel And Dimed book, THE STORY: Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive, when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour job won't pay the rent: she'll have to do back-to-back shifts, as a chambermaid and a

Author: جورج أورويل
Publisher: ktab INC.
Release Date: 2018-12-06
Book Size: 61.41 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : ar
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by جورج أورويل, Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download book, يصف الكاتب بؤس البيوت التي تسكنها الطبقة العاملة التي لا تقي من مطر الشتاء وبرده وتغص بالحشرات والذباب صيفا ويتحدث عن الدخل القليل للعامل الذي لا يكفيه لسد الرمق. في القسم الثاني من الرواية يعري أورويل حقائق الرأسمالية الصناعية التي تمتص دماء العمال ويهاجم الآلات التي ستحل في يوم ما محل الإنسان.

Author: Sarah Pelekies
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date: 2008
Book Size: 76.97 MB
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Nickel And Dimed Prek Re Arbeitsverh Ltnisse Im Niedriglohnsektor Der Heutigen Usa

by Sarah Pelekies, Nickel And Dimed Prek Re Arbeitsverh Ltnisse Im Niedriglohnsektor Der Heutigen Usa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Nickel And Dimed Prek Re Arbeitsverh Ltnisse Im Niedriglohnsektor Der Heutigen Usa book, Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 64 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Aufdeckung gesellschaftlicher Missstande gehort zur Aufgabe des besonders in den USA traditionsreichen investigativen Journalismus. In ihrem 2001 erschienenden Undercoverbericht Nickel and Dimed' hat die Journalistin und Sozialkritikerin Barbara Ehrenreich die Arbeitsverhaltnisse im Niedriglohnsektor der USA an die Offentlichkeit gebracht. Dadurch hat sie nicht nur einen oftmals vergessenen Wirtschaftsbereich fokussiert, sondern auch die prekaren Arbeitsbedingungen der Unterschicht eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Durch Nickel and Dimed' wird die auch von der Sozialreform 1996 propagierte Annahme widerlegt, Arbeit allein reiche aus, der Armut zu entkommen. Dem widersprechen zudem die Zahlen offizieller Statistiken, nach denen sich die Anzahl der working poor" zur Zeit Ehrenreichs Recherche auf 6,4 Millionen belief. Die der U.S.-amerikanischen Gesellschaft zugrunde liegenden Wertvorstellungen, wie die Betonung des Individualismus und das Festhalten an dem Horatio Alger Mythos, bilden dazu die Basis dieser Problematik, in der sich vor allem auch die drastischen Klassenunterschiede in den USA widerspiegeln. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden sowohl aus einer literarischen als auch kulturellen Perspektive Nickel and Dimed' und die darin aufgeworfenen Problematiken eingehend betrachtet. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf den working poor" an sich sowie deren Arbeitsbedingungen im Besonderen. Hierbei ist vor allem die von Ehrenreich verwendete Methodik zur Einflussnahme auf ihre Leser/-innen von Bedeutung. Die Art und Weise der Einflussnahme wird herausgearbeitet ebenso wie die Bedeutung der Klassenzugehorigkeit der jeweiligen Akteure.

Author: Frederic P. Miller
Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
Release Date: 2011-01-28
Book Size: 14.97 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Nickel And Dimed

by Frederic P. Miller, Nickel And Dimed Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Nickel And Dimed book, Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from the perspective of the undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform on the working poor in the United States. In some ways it is similar to George Orwell's much earlier Down and Out in Paris and London, German investigative reporter Günter Wallraff's Ganz Unten (The Lowest of the Low), and John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me. The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000. The book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books. An earlier version appeared as an article in the January 1999 issue of Harper's magazine. Ehrenreich later wrote a companion book, Bait and Switch (published September 2005), which discusses her attempt to find a white-collar job. A stage adaptation by Joan Holden opened in 2002.

Author: جورج أورويل
Publisher: ktab INC.
Release Date: 2014-04-20
Book Size: 61.95 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : ar
Pages : 128
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1984

by جورج أورويل, 1984 Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download 1984 book, 1984 رواية ديستوبية من تأليف جورج أورويل قدمها في عام 1949 والتي كان يتنبأ من خلالها بمصير العالم الذي ستحكمه قوى كبيرة تتقاسم مساحته وسكانه ولا توفر أحلامهم وطموحاتهم بل تحولهم إلى مجرد أرقام في جمهوريات الأخ الأكبر الذي يراقب كل شيء ويعرف كل شيء، حيث يمثل حكمه الحكم الشمولي

Author: Paul Krugman
Publisher: Worth Pub
Release Date: 2005-12-15
Book Size: 50.81 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
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Macroeconomics Nickel Dimed

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Release Date: 2002
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Category : United States
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Dollars Sense

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Author: Gene Epstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
Release Date: 2006-08-04
Book Size: 65.82 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Econospinning

by Gene Epstein, Econospinning Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Econospinning book, Readers are offered simple rules to live by when practicing the art of gleaning the truth in economic news in a guide that attempts to see through the veil of economic misinformation provided in the media and offers facts in its place.

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Release Date: 2006
Book Size: 78.66 MB
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Category : Theater
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American Theatre

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Release Date: 2003
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Yale Theatre

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Author: Amanda Konradi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Release Date: 2003-07-31
Book Size: 30.32 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
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Reading Between The Lines Toward An Understanding Of Current Social Problems

by Amanda Konradi, Reading Between The Lines Toward An Understanding Of Current Social Problems Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Reading Between The Lines Toward An Understanding Of Current Social Problems book, Drawing from a wide selection of current research and writings, Reading Between the Lines brings together accessible readings that examine a broad range of social problems and reflect different conceptual approaches. The text provides a conceptual framework for understanding social problems and enables an integrated race, class, and gender analysis.