Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of big boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Millions of americans work full-time, year-round, for po...Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of big boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Millions of americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them.