Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich [Ehrenreich, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Poverty - United States, Working poor - United States, Social Science, Labor & Industrial Relations, Minimum wage, Minimum wage - United States, Social Classes, United States, Economic Policy, Unskilled labor - United States, Poverty, Poverty & Homelessness, Political Science, Working poor, Labor, Economic Conditions, Public Policy, General, Unskilled labor, Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780805088380
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

When we get to the house, Holly lets me look at the ankle, and while I'm bent over it -

not that there's anything to see - she whispers that the pain is really wicked now. "You can't work," I say. "You hear me, Holly? You can't work on this ankle." Still, all she'll agree to do is call Ted from the phone in the kitchen, and I stand there listening to her apologize weepily to him, throwing in a bit about how Barbara is making a fuss, and I feel the beautiful Zen detachment drain out of me with the sweat on my face. I reach out and insist that she give me the phone, and the first words I hear, almost before I can say,

"Listen," are "Now let's just calm down, Barbara," although he's old enough to know that

"calm down" generally functions as an incitement to rage.

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