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  • Nickel And Dimed is an awesome read — if I recall rightly, the using multiple cloths was a highly recommended expert approach, while the approach actually pushed by the agency the author was employed by was about minimal effort and maximum flash — making it clear the cleaning service had visited but not necessarily doing the job well.

    Earmark New And Used Kitchen Sponges | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • I reccomend Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickle and Dimed" for it's chapter on working at Thrallmart.

    A Good Gun Salesman is Hard To Find 2009

  • Overall Bright-sided is much more theoretical than Nickled and Dimed, for which Ehrenreich took a series of low-wage jobs to show how corporations exploit blue-collar workers, or her more recent Bait and Switch.

    2009 October 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Overall Bright-sided is much more theoretical than Nickled and Dimed, for which Ehrenreich took a series of low-wage jobs to show how corporations exploit blue-collar workers, or her more recent Bait and Switch.

    2009 October « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Ehrenreich will be familiar to many of you for Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America, her classic experiment in living on a minimum wage.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: Obesity Epidemic: Spurring a Revolution Linda Novick O'Keefe 2012

  • Next month, the American Library Association will spotlight the most-challenged books of 2011. (2010 included the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which was pulled from the Menifee, California, Union School District after a parent complained that the dictionary defined oral sex; and Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, which was challenged but retained at the Easton Pennsylvania School District when a parent claimed the book promoted economic fallacies and socialist ideology.)

    Carolyn Bucior: Kim Simac vs. Clarence Darrow: How Wisconsin Recalls and Miss USA Mirror Scopes Monkey Trial Carolyn Bucior 2011

  • At the MARGIN you can put up with it, but if aggregate your acceptance of a small fee to fund music to ALL of the little things we are getting "Nickel and Dimed" for (how's that for an ironic quote?), I don't think you'd be as happy to live with it.

    Teacher, teach thyself economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I reccomend Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickle and Dimed" for it's chapter on working at Thrallmart.

    A Good Gun Salesman is Hard To Find 2009

  • Next month, the American Library Association will spotlight the most-challenged books of 2011. (2010 included the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which was pulled from the Menifee, California, Union School District after a parent complained that the dictionary defined oral sex; and Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, which was challenged but retained at the Easton Pennsylvania School District when a parent claimed the book promoted economic fallacies and socialist ideology.)

    Carolyn Bucior: Kim Simac vs. Clarence Darrow: How Wisconsin Recalls and Miss USA Mirror Scopes Monkey Trial Carolyn Bucior 2011

  • As Ehrenreich notes on her blog, A Florida woman wrote to tell me that, before reading Nickel and Dimed, she'd always been annoyed at the poor for what she saw as their self-inflicted obesity.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: Obesity Epidemic: Spurring a Revolution Linda Novick O'Keefe 2012

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