I hope we haven’t forgotten Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books (“Life below the poverty line,” HCN, 6/10/19). In Chapter 2, “Scrubbing in Maine,” Ehrenreich works in a place that, like Montana, could be known for its whiteness. On the basis of that one piece of camouflage, we watch her […]