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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Poverty is a major issue across the United States, prompting the author to investigate it further.
Chapter 3: Minimum-wage workers regularly face housing challenges and humiliating, grim job searches.
Chapter 4: Minimum-wage work experiences very high turnover rates, in part due to grueling physical demands on employees daily.
Chapter 5: Food service work meant meeting interesting people, though management was often a pain.
Chapter 6: Poverty often means confronting uncomfortable housing conditions and hidden costs too.
Chapter 7: Minimum-wage work is physically and emotionally exhausting, and demands hard skills from workers.
Chapter 8: Poverty affects more people than we realize, and the government needs to act now.
Description
Nickel and Dimed (2001) offers a first-hand account of low-income life in America. The author went underground to learn why a huge number of hard-working people must struggle to earn enough money to live a comfortable life, eat decent food and afford the most basic shelter. We may take them for granted, but the people earning the minimum wage are the nation’s backbone, serving our food, cleaning up after us and stocking the supermarket shelves.
Who Should Listen
- Sociologists interested in wage discrepancy
- Journalists looking for inspiration
- Employees and employers