by Barbara Ehrenreich · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467201369
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«Por cuatro duros: cómo (no) apañárselas en Estados Unidos» is Barbara Ehrenreich's essay published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (219 pages).
The author goes undercover as an unskilled worker in the United States: across Florida, Maine and Minnesota she tries jobs such as waitress, cleaner, nursing assistant and shop assistant; she describes in the first person the difficulty of surviving on the minimum wage and the toll of the worst-paid jobs.
Spanish-language edition published in 2004. Translation by Carmen Aguilar of the original 'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America' (2001).
For readers interested in sociological essays, social criticism and investigative journalism on labor precarity in the United States.
Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.
