Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Getting Ready 1
1 Serving in Florida 11
2 Scrubbing in Maine 51
3 Selling in Minnesota 121
Evaluation 193
