The Resource Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado
Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado
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The item Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
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- "I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself--if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing."--The foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed. We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature frank yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a cell phone and a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like--on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor, and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should."--
- "An examination of what it means to be poor in America today"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxiv, 195 pages
- Contents
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- It takes money to make money
- You get what you pay for
- You can't pay a doctor in chickens anymore
- I'm not angry so much as I'm really tired
- I've got way bigger problems than a spinach salad can solve
- This part is about sex
- We do not have babies for welfare money
- Poverty is fucking expensive
- Being poor isn't a crime--it just feels like it
- An open letter to rich people
- Isbn
- 9780399171987
- Label
- Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America
- Title
- Hand to mouth
- Title remainder
- living in bootstrap America
- Statement of responsibility
- Linda Tirado
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself--if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing."--The foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed. We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature frank yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a cell phone and a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like--on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor, and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should."--
- "An examination of what it means to be poor in America today"--
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tirado, Linda
- Dewey number
- 362.50973
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Text in English
- LC call number
- HC110.P6
- LC item number
- T57 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Poor
- Poverty
- Social classes
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Poor
- Poverty
- Social classes
- United States
- Armut
- Soziale Klasse
- Erlebnisbericht
- USA
- Social classes
- Social classes
- Label
- Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Contents
- It takes money to make money -- You get what you pay for -- You can't pay a doctor in chickens anymore -- I'm not angry so much as I'm really tired -- I've got way bigger problems than a spinach salad can solve -- This part is about sex -- We do not have babies for welfare money -- Poverty is fucking expensive -- Being poor isn't a crime--it just feels like it -- An open letter to rich people
- Control code
- ocn876882883
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxiv, 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399171987
- Lccn
- 2014023347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40024414429
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780399171987
- (OCoLC)876882883
- Label
- Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- It takes money to make money -- You get what you pay for -- You can't pay a doctor in chickens anymore -- I'm not angry so much as I'm really tired -- I've got way bigger problems than a spinach salad can solve -- This part is about sex -- We do not have babies for welfare money -- Poverty is fucking expensive -- Being poor isn't a crime--it just feels like it -- An open letter to rich people
- Control code
- ocn876882883
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxiv, 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399171987
- Lccn
- 2014023347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40024414429
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780399171987
- (OCoLC)876882883
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