Tuesday, August 05, 2003

NICKEL AND DIMED

If you've looked to your left you will have seen that I'm reading Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" a harrowing portrait of living on (or below) the bread line in the USA. It is an excellent piece of investigative journalism and says much about how society treats those doing the really shitty jobs. And, you thought it was only workers in the third world who got a raw deal.

This lunchtime I stumbled on Ehrenreich's latest article on AlterNet. Here she comments on the "debate", or lack thereof, that her book spawned in the US. I'm sorry I missed Ehrenreich on right wing talk radio. If she talks like she writes, she must have given them hell.

:: Posted by pete @ 12:18