In May 2001, when the book originally appeared, the nation was relatively prosperous, if experiencing the beginnings of deflation in the dot-com bubble and signs of shakiness in the stock market. How have their lives changed? Not for the better.
The new edition includes an excellent afterword by Ehrenreich (reprinted in part at TomDispatch), in which she takes stock of the past ten years and revisits some of the workers she met while reporting her book. Picador is marking the tenth anniversary of Barbara Ehrenreich’s modern classic “ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” in which she chronicled her attempts to make a life on minimum wage in three states, with a special anniversary edition.
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