Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover to experience life as a low-wage worker in America. Taking jobs as a waitress, hotel maid, cleaning woman, and sales clerk, she exposes the hidden struggles of those who live paycheck to paycheck. What begins as an experiment in survival becomes a powerful revelation of the gap between work and dignity, and the cost of living in a system that rewards so little for so much labor.