| 1. |  | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
"On (Not) Getting By in America"; this sentence itself, incorporates the whole sense of the author's precious experience, and prospects to the potential reader a prompt sense of discomfort. Or at least, cues the awareness that somebody in this country is not indeed "living large".
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| 2. |  | Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
from Spiegel & Grau
Price: $17.16
Customer Review:
I just finished reading Factory Girls. It had received a 5 star rating in a magazine review and I thought it might be good. It really was. I am a big lover of Chinese movies, and thought this book would provide a background between the old and the new. It didn't disappoint. My only critical thing... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
from Metropolitan Books
Price: $15.64
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I can only conclude that the author slept with the publisher, since I can't imagine why a rational person would publish such a total misfire. Great concept for a book, which is why I picked it up, but executed by an author who put very little effort into the project. It's all about her, and that's a... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
from New Press
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
As I have done on other occasions when I am reviewing more than one work by an author I am using some of the same comments, where they are pertinent, here as I did in earlier reviews. In this series the first Studs Terkel book reviewed was that of his "The Good War": an Oral History of World War... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | The Working Poor: Invisible in America
from Vintage
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
In The Working Poor: Invisible in America, Shipler (2004) delivers candid insights from a vulnerable population underrepresented in the mainstream media. He illustrates how necessity overrides any type of luxury in the lower socioeconomic rungs. Basic survival outweighs physical or mental health,... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
from Business Plus
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
Over the past few months I have been developing the idea of what I call the "new entrepreneur". This is someone who starts their own business, not because they have the entrepreneurial drive to start businesses, but rather because they provide a service and they prefer to work in an independent... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining: Cases, Practice, and Law (8th Edition)
from Prentice Hall
Price: $144.00
Customer Review:
Overall a pretty robust text on labor relations. I would have enjoyed it more if there would have been a deeper legal history, mostly it discussed arbitration, and failed to cover the legal battle that led up to the NLBR's establishment. Besides that problem, this text is good enough. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, Metropolitan Books, Holt & Co, 2002.
Most of us are well aware of the patterns of illegal immigration which bring numerous undocumented workers to the US and other... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Wiley Investment Classics)
from Wiley
Price: $26.95
Customer Review:
Frederick Lewis Allen's book on the 1920's was first published in 1931. His informal history of this time period has withstood the test of time. He identified and described the major events and trends in that decade, without the benefit of what historians like to call a "decent interval." His... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
from PublicAffairs
Price: $17.72
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Tabloid-style headlines have infected even mainstream magazines and newspapers in recent years. Articles about the coming "Social Security Disaster" vie for attention next to those on industry's inability to overcome the "Loss Of Baby Boomer Talent" or even fears that "Baby Boomers Will Retire Into... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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