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The Resource Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado

Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado

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  • "I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." -from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like-on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should." --
  • "An examination of what it means to be poor in America today"--
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eng
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Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America
Title
Hand to mouth
Title remainder
living in bootstrap America
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Linda Tirado
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." -from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like-on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should." --
  • "An examination of what it means to be poor in America today"--
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Tirado, Linda
Dewey number
362.50973
Index
no index present
LC call number
HC110.P6
LC item number
T57 2014
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Poor
  • Poverty
  • Social classes
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Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado
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volume
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text
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rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xxiv, 195 pages
Isbn
9780399171987
Lccn
2014023347
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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BK0014824640
Label
Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xxiv, 195 pages
Isbn
9780399171987
Lccn
2014023347
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
System control number
BK0014824640

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