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Book: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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  1. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)

    ...I displayed, or usually displayed, all those traits deemed essential to job readiness: punctuality, cleanliness, cheerfulness, obedience. These are the qualities that welfare-to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved.
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