Two good books worth reading

[serryjw]

I have them booked marked on Amazon
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805063897.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-
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Determined to find out how anyone could make ends meet on $7 an hour, she left behind her middle class life as a journalist except for $1000 in start-up funds, a car and her laptop computer to try to sustain herself as a low-skilled worker for a month at a time. In 1999 and 2000, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress in Key West, Fla., as a cleaning woman and a nursing home aide in Portland, Maine, and in a Wal-Mart in Minneapolis, Minn.
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Her newest one just reviewed in the Denver Post
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805076069.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-
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My initial aim was not "to tell a story of working in corporate America" but to try to understand the human underside of corporate America--the job insecurity, the constant layoffs and downsizings that now occur even in the best of times. I expected to get a job and hence an inside view, but I always knew that that would be very difficult. After about 4-5 months of job searching, I began to get seriously discouraged, but I also came to understand that a fruitless search is in fact a very common experience. After all, today 44 percent of the long-term unemployed are white collar folks--an unusually high percentage. It's their world I entered, and their story that I tell in Bait and Switch.
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Sorry images didn't come through
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-9248865-0042317

[kanrok]

1. Nickel and Dimed was a very good book

recommended reading.