<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Minimum wage — United States."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Minimum wage — United States."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/smplibrary/rss/search?query=%22Minimum%20wage%20%E2%80%94%20United%20States.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:41:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job-any job-can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity-a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3607263</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3607263</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehrenreich, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3607263076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On (not) Getting by in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250808318/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nickel and Dimed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," and that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. This work reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity, a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategems for survival. Read it for the author's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything, from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal, quite the same way again.  In her new afterword she explains why, ten years on in America this book is more relevant than ever.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2136377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2136377</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehrenreich, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2136377076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On (not) Getting by in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780312626686/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nickel and Dimed]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1165351</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1165351</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehrenreich, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1165351076</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>On (not) Getting by in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781587243684/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nickel and Dimed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1669646</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1669646</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehrenreich, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1669646076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On (not) Getting by in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780805063882/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay the People!]]></title><description><![CDATA["Pay the People! argues that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3646926</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3646926</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Driscoll, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3646926076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620978825/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Clock]]></title><description><![CDATA[A college-educated young professional details the grueling realities of hourly labor for the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce while outlining strategies for more humane employment practices.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2803219</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2803219</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Guendelsberger, Emily]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2803219076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>What Low-wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316509008/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fight for Fifteen]]></title><description><![CDATA["The fight for a higher minimum wage has become the biggest national labor story in decades. Beginning in November 2012, strikes by fast food workers spread across the country, landing in Seattle in May 2013. Within a year, Seattle had adopted a $15 minimum wage-- the highest in the United States-- without a bloody political battle. Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for Fifteen makes a deeply informed case for a national $15/hour minimum wage as the only practical solution to reversing America's decades-long slide toward becoming a low-wage nation. Drawing both on new scholarship and on his extensive practical experiences organizing workers and grappling with inequality across the United States, David Rolf, president of SEIU 775-- which waged the successful Seattle campaign-- offers an accessible explanation of 'middle out' economics, an emerging popular economic theory that suggests that the origins of prosperity in capitalist economies lie with workers and consumers, not investors and employers. A blueprint for a different and hopeful American future, The Fight for Fifteen offers concrete tools, ideas, and inspiration for anyone interested in real change in our lifetimes"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2410938</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2410938</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rolf, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2410938076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Right Wage for A Working America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620971130/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Featuring cases from companies around the globe, this book shows how real organizations are excelling financially by strengthening frontline employees' working conditions.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1984186</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1984186</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heymann, Jody]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1984186076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Creating Value by Investing in your Workforce</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781422123119/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wo zai di ceng de sheng huo : dang zhuan lan zuo jia hua shen wei nu fu wu sheng / ba ba la. Ailunruike (Barbara Ehrenreich) zhu ; lin jia xuan yi]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2916142</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2916142</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[chi]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehrenreich, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2916142076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>chi</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9789866723452/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in the Shadows]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1908648</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1908648</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thompson, Gabriel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1908648076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Year of Doing the Jobs (most) Americans Won&apos;t Do</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781568584089/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>