Julesburg Public Library

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper,...

After losing his restaurant, chef Clay Maguire must start all over. This time at the bottom. Pushing forty with no other skills, Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. He soon meets others who share his plight. He meets Liz who traveled in the Peace Corp; Bob who was a manufacturing engineer and at 64 is too old to get hired elsewhere; and Charlie, who's job as a corporate hiring manager is so miserable that he...

A college educated young professional details the grueling realities of hourly labor for the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce while outlining strategies for more humane employment practices.