UA Club to Discuss Book on Low-Wage America

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Everywoman Book Club, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center at The University of Alabama, will meet on Thursday, Aug. 23 at noon at The Globe Restaurant to discuss “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” by Dr. Barbara Ehrenreich.

In 1998, Ehrenreich, a professional writer and frequent contributor to Time, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Nation and The New York Times Magazine, decided to go “undercover” and explore the lives of unskilled, underpaid workers. She moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, and worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide and a Wal-Mart sales clerk.

This book is an insightful and provocative account of her journey through low-wage America. Dorothy Gallagher of The New York Times wrote, “We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America’s working poor so clearly and directly, and conveying with it a deep moral outrage and a finely textured sense of lives as lived.”

All members of the community and campus are welcome to attend.

The Globe Restaurant is located in downtown historic Northport.

For more information, contact the Women’s Resource Center at 205/348-5040 or online at http://wrc.ua.edu/.