Nickel and Dimed

Authors: Ehrenreich, Barbara
Topics: Social Issues
Lexile: 1340,
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
ISBN: 9781429926645,
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 200,
Synopsis: Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed, Blood Rites, The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller), Fear of Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and several other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.
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