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Dirt Cheap Life At The Wrong End Of The Job By E. Wynhausen *C2
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For three decades award-winning journalist Elisabeth Wynhausen has written compelling accounts of the lives of the working poor and the downside of Australia's 'miracle economy'. In late 2001, she decided to join them.Over a period of ten months Elisabeth went undercover and worked as a factory hand, an office cleaner, a retail worker and a kitchen hand, moving from state to state and attempting to live on her meagre earnings.
Dirt Cheap is the inside story of what it is like to work twelve-hour days on a factory line sorting eggs at a battery hen farm; of working a split shift of thirteen hours cleaning a nursing home for just over ten dollars an hour. As Elisabeth discovers that many so-called 'unskilled' jobs actually require an incredible amount of skill, so too does she learn that exposing the conditions of low-wage work can be sheer hell for your lower back, not to mention your morale.
Caustic, courageous and often funny, this is a unique view of class, power and middle management seen from the other side of the serving counter, and a very personal experience of what it is like to be under-paid, under-appreciated and part of Australia's emerging underclass.
This Book is secondhand.
Can be sent by Austalia Post, Standard post charge applies.(Australia only.) Please message me for bank transfer details.
I live in Swan View but book also can be picked up at Cannington and Belmont if those locations are more convenient.
I accept cash on pick up only.
To see all my current listings, click on my name:Trinity's Books
Dirt Cheap is the inside story of what it is like to work twelve-hour days on a factory line sorting eggs at a battery hen farm; of working a split shift of thirteen hours cleaning a nursing home for just over ten dollars an hour. As Elisabeth discovers that many so-called 'unskilled' jobs actually require an incredible amount of skill, so too does she learn that exposing the conditions of low-wage work can be sheer hell for your lower back, not to mention your morale.
Caustic, courageous and often funny, this is a unique view of class, power and middle management seen from the other side of the serving counter, and a very personal experience of what it is like to be under-paid, under-appreciated and part of Australia's emerging underclass.
This Book is secondhand.
Can be sent by Austalia Post, Standard post charge applies.(Australia only.) Please message me for bank transfer details.
I live in Swan View but book also can be picked up at Cannington and Belmont if those locations are more convenient.
I accept cash on pick up only.
To see all my current listings, click on my name:Trinity's Books
- Date Listed:21/01/2021
- Last Edited:02/07/2022
- Condition:Used
- Shipping:Shipping & Pickup
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