Found at a local garage sale last summer, I finally got around to reading Nickel and Dimed – On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. The description from Better World Books:
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the “lowliest” occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.
Based on the underlines and margin-notes that abruptly ended after only a few pages, I’m guessing that the previous reader either got bored or offended and stopped reading, or became so consumed by the story as to forget their note taking altogether. After reading the book myself, any of the above reactions seem plausible.
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