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	<title>Consuming and the American Dream?</title>
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		<title>Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich writes of what she experienced pretending to be a minimum wage worker. She worked at the jobs she could get without using her educational and professional background for help. She pretended to be a divorced housewife. She tells not of  just the near impossibility of basic needs: affording [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consumerism.umwblogs.org/2010/03/09/nickel-and-dimed-by-barbara-ehrenreich/</link>
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		<title>The Working Poor</title>
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            The Tuesday before spring break, the class was assigned to read Barbara Ehrenreich’s book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. I was assigned this book in high school and have subsequently read it multiple times for school and for fun. In this book Ehrenreich speaks about how she did fieldwork on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consumerism.umwblogs.org/2010/03/08/the-working-poor/</link>
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		<title>Nickel and Dimed: Barely Eking Out A Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the book Nickel and Dimed, author and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich documents three consecutive episodes of her life when she gave up the comfy, financially secure middle class life and worked difficult, “dirty” jobs that she could barely eke out a living on.
She starts out the book in Key West, Florida, where she stays in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expendable: Nickel and Dimed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[b : more easily or economically replaced than rescued, salvaged, or protected
Barbara Ehrenreich did not have to do this. With a PhD in biology and dreams of journalism realized, she did not have to set out on her anthropological mission. But for many Americans, there is no choice&#8211; the low-wage jobs for which they fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nickel and Dimed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, Barbara Ehrenreich’s uncovers the hardship faced by low wage workers. She decides to work at minimum wage jobs for a month each at different locations. Ehrenreich who has a PhD takes jobs such as a maid, waitress and Wal-Mart worker. She confesses that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nickel and Dimed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed” investigates the lives of America’s working poor.  Ehrenreich works undercover in order to discover the ramifications of living on minimum wage in a number of menial jobs.  She discovers the difficulties of life as a working woman by waiting tables, working as a Wal-Mart associate, and as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Found Appreciation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, she goes undercover to investigate necessary service jobs and what it is like living in them.  She worked low-wage jobs to try to see if she could live for a few months in three different locations as a maid, waitress, and at Wal-Mart.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consumerism.umwblogs.org/2010/03/07/a-new-found-appreciation/</link>
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		<title>N &amp;D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found the book Nickel and Dimed to be a very interesting read. I went into the book knowing that it is obviously difficult to be an unskilled worker but I had never fully contemplated  just how physically and mentally taxing many of these jobs are. I always find it rather disheartening that the lowest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consumerism.umwblogs.org/2010/03/07/n-d/</link>
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		<title>Nickel and Dimed-Meghan Schweers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America
This book was a very easy read. The author, Barbara Ehrenreich, wrote it in a manner that was very easy to read and understand. It flowed really well and it was one that I could not put down. It is fascinating that she took this project on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://consumerism.umwblogs.org/2010/03/07/nickel-and-dimed-meghan-schweers/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich, in &#8220;Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America&#8221;, seemingly takes on the role of an anthropologist working &#8220;in the field.&#8221; In order to attempt to understand the plight of millions of Americans who labor in low-wage jobs and struggle to make ends meet, Ehrenreich works first as a waitress and then [...]]]></description>
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