2009 Selection ~ All Souls

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One Book Project 2010 ~ Nickel and Dimed

FAQ responses from Barbara Ehrenreich Brief author autobiography Reading Group Guide NPR Interview - May 19, 2001 (select Real Media to listen to 9-minute podcast)

Related Resources

• 30 days [DVD] / created by Morgan Spurlock
  (for library use only in QCC's Alden Library)  HN59.2.T45 2006.

  In the first episode, "Minimum Wage," Spurlock and his fiancée try to make ends meet by working minimum-wage jobs in Columbus, Ohio.

• Child Labor in America
   http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

• Dorothea Lange
   http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

• Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html

• People Like Us
   http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/about/sample.html

• Profiles of Low-Wage America
   http://www.npr.org/news/specials/low_wage/

• The Real Story of the Superheroes
   http://www.dulcepinzon.com/en_projects_superhero.htm

• “Trapped by low wages: Barbara Ehrenreich on getting Nickel and Dimed." Social Worker.org  3 August 2001.

• Way We Worked
   http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww

• Women Working, 1800-1930
   http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/

• “Working Hard, Still Falling Short: New Findings on the Challenges Confronting America’s Working Families”
   http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/pdfs/NatReport08.pdf