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Product NameNickel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
LanguageEnglish
CategoryBook / Magazine / Publication
Short DescriptionHeight:0.9 inches / Length:8.2 inches / Weight:0.55 pounds / Width:5.4 inches
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Length5.43 inches    (convert)
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AuthorBarbara Ehrenreich
Page Count256
BindingPaperback
Published08/02/2011
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Long DescriptionOur 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. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.
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status
    find     the find value you sent in your request
    code     200 = success, 404 = not found, 400 and 500 = error
    message     details about the code
    version     feed version number
product
    modified     YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (24 hour time)
    ean13     13 digit EAN-13 code
    upca     12 digit UPC-A code (may be n/a)
    upce     8 digit UPC-E code (may be n/a)
    product     the name of the product
    description     size, weight, count, color, etc.
    category_no     numeric category code
    category_text     text version of the category
    url     a link to the product page (not on our site)
    image     a link to an image of the product (on our site)
    has_long_desc     does this product have a long description (1/0)
    barcode     a link to a barcode image (on our site)
    locked     is this data locked from updates (1/0)
company
    name     company name
    logo     a link to a company logo (on our site)
    url     a link to the company's official web site
    address     the company's mailing address
    phone     the company's phone number (digits only)
    locked     is this data locked from updates (1/0)

You will need to make requests for the content of the long description in a separate call get=long_desc to the GET or POST request. In this case, you will only get back the long description. The return structure of the long description data looks like this...

status
    find     the find value you sent in your request
    code     200 = success, 404 = not found, 400 and 500 = error
    message     details about the code
    version     feed version number
product
    modified     YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (24 hour time)
    long_desc     the long description for the product
    locked     is this data locked from updates (1/0)