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Published: 20.04.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Book "Nickel and Dimed"', 1.
  • Essays 'The Book "Nickel and Dimed"', 2.
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Black and White of Nickel and Dimed
<Tab/>Do you ever wonder what it would be like to work two jobs and still be poor? Ever think what it would be like to be unable to afford some of the simple luxuries that we all sometimes take for granted? In America, the greatest country of all we have come to know, millions of people are doing just that: working two or even three jibs, yet, being unable to make ends meet.
Barbara Ehrenreich is a well known writer, journalist who published twelve books, many of them best-sellers, has a PhD in Biology and simply a woman. Author began the task, which she was hoping someone else would do, "someone much younger..., some hungry neophyte journalist with time on her hands (p.1-2). So she sets off to do "old-fashioned journalism," leaving behind the comforts of her air-conditioned office and beautiful house.

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