%0 Journal Article
%T A Book Review of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
%A M. Graham Spann
%J Sociation Today
%D 2003
%I North Carolina Sociological Association
%X Ehrenreich points out from a journalistic perspective how people who fill the low-paid jobs created in the economy have to struggle to get by. Regardless of work values, a low income means difficult choices have to be made. One can work just as hard at an entry-level job as a highly-paid job. In fact, the author thinks, work at the entry level may be the hardest society has to offer
%K poverty
%K discrimination
%K working class
%K class discrimination
%U http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v2/nickel.htm