. >> host: now, barbara ehrenreich discusses her book "nickel and dimed" about living in america on low wages. this is about 45 minutes. >> my goodness. i've got to say i'm just a little bit overwhelmed at the number of view. it looks as if we've got standing room only, so make yourself as comfortable as you can. i just can't thank you enough on behalf of ruminator books to come out tonight. a more than pleased to introduce to you, barbara ehrenreich was speaking to us about her read this book "nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in america" nick collins i missed the fruit of two years of experience within the ranks of those struggling to make ends meet while working full-time jobs, paid at or near minimum wage. simply put, as the two decided to test ourselves commit troops of welfare reform rhetoric that promises a job, any job is the ticket to prosperity and self-sufficient they. in 1999 and 2000, she left her life as a key western allies and moves from florida to maine to write here in minneapolis, worked as a waitress, hotel maid, cleaning women, nursing home aide and right here,

so with all of that said, please, warmly welcome barbara ehrenreich. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. thank you for the nice introduction, susana, and i hope there's not some mistake. there's so many people here, i just want to be sure nobody was misled by the title, this is not an investment seminary, okay? is. [laughter] i mean, yeah. i've been trying to write about poverty and especially issues having to do with women in poverty for many years now, and i want to say i'm just really thrilled that i have gotten a whole book on this subject because it is not easy to interest the mainstream media in these sorts of issues. and i will tell you one anecdote to illustrate my frustration over the years. this is something that happened, um, a few years ago. i was taken out to lunch by the editor of a well known national magazine which will go unnamed here in the interests of my having a future writing career. and these lunches are really important to freelance writers because very often the cost of the lunch is more than you're going to be paid, you know,

and that has to do with the 19th century running all the way from tocqueville to tracer and barbara ehrenreich and sumner and others. i do graduate classes that relate to african-american history, often urban focus and urban context. this year and preparing to put together a class on approaching american culture from the standpoint of its industrial structures. so how to market began to the copyright act of 1909 to the reemergence of new platforms of disseminating of the 70s and 80s. how does it move