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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Nickel and Dimed" was an important account of an often hidden problem. She did us all a service with that book. Maybe someone now needs to take up that mantle and do an updated version, because I suspect many of those indignities suffered by low-wage workers years ago are sadly still with us. Maybe even in more insidious forms.[/quote] Agreed! By coincidence, last night I started reading Maid, and it has similar themes. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote the introduction (in which she points out that she had the luxury of just visiting the low-income life in Nickel & Dined but the Maid author actually lived it) — apparently Barbara Ehrenreich ran a program that supported writers who cover similar topics. (Unrelated, but for nonfiction fans, BE’s daughter, Rosa Brooks, also wrote a really interesting book. Tangled Up in Blue, about going through the police training program here in DC.)[/quote]
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