ISBN-13: 9780415928014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.
Earning the minimum wage, scrambling to pay the bills, living from paycheck to paycheck, worrying about how to put food on the table, such is life for most working-class women. Many have not graduated from high school, let alone college. They are married to working-class men and live with their kids in poor, working-class neighborhoods. Very often the same neighborhoods they grew up in and will likely never leave. These are the women profiled in Jennifer Johnson's book, Getting By On the Minimum. Women who work as grocery-store cashiers, assembly-line workers, bus drivers, secretaries, house-cleaners, beauticians, cooks, and childcare providers. This first intimate portrait of such women gives voice to their lives and the work they do which is so often invisible. Johnson profiles the real-life stories of more than 60 women who have no college education, are married with kids, and earn an average of $16,000 per year, giving us an important window into a large, poorly understood segment of our society.