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From Follett
"Based on Nickel and dimed, on (not) getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich." Acclaimed author Barbara Ehrenreich takes on a minimum wage job to see what it takes to survive in the low-wage world, and finds herself struggling to make ends meet and keep her spirit from being broken.
From the Publisher
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