TY - BOOK AU - Ehrenreich,Barbara AU - Ehrenreich,Barbara AU - Gadomska,Barbara TI - Za grosze pracować i (nie) przeżyć T2 - Terra incognita SN - 837414209X U1 - 305.569/092B 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Warszawa PB - Wydawn. W.A.B. KW - Minimum wage KW - United States KW - Working poor KW - Unskilled labor KW - Poverty N2 - Polish translation of "Nickel and dimed". Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just how they were going to survive on the wages of the unskilled--at $6 to $7 an hour, only half of what is considered a living wage. So she did what millions of Americans do, she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet ER -