Nickel and Dimed
About
The Summer Scholars Project aims to welcome incoming freshmen to the campus community by engaging them in a common experience — reading a thought-provoking book.
The book chosen for 2008 is Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America.
A complimentary book will be sent out to all incoming freshmen who have registered for classes. At New Student Orientation (http://www.ss.unr.edu/nso/) in August, faculty volunteers from numerous disciplines will lead groups in discussing the book.
About the Author
One of today’s most recognized and original social commentators, Barbara Ehrenreich has been a contributing writer for Time magazine since 1990. Her articles covering healthcare, class, families, sex, and gender politics have appeared in a range of national publications. Ehrenreich received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill's Content "Honorable Mention" for a chapter of Nickel and Dimed, which appeared in Harper's in January 1999. A second essay entitled "Maid to Order," which grew out of her research for this book, was also published by Harper's (April 2000), where it generated so many letters that the magazine had to create a special section to accommodate them.
Special thanks to the Idaho State University’s Reading Project for author and book resources for Nickel and Dimed.