NKU Book Connection presents...
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich's book touches on many interesting issues relating to social justice, the minimum wage, welfare reform, gender, class, and income levels in the United States. You may want to read more about these topics! In fact, these issues would be excellent starter ideas for research projects.
Read more by and about Barbara Ehrenreich herself:
- NKU Book Connection Reserve Collection
- Reserve Desk, Steely Library, 3rd floor, NKU ID required
Reserved here for your use is a bibliography of articles and books written by and about Ehrenreich. From NKUIRE, click on COURSE RESERVE and choose NKU Book Connection as the department. - Academic Search Premier
- Articles by and about Ehrenreich are often published in magazines and journals. Search this database with her name to see recent publications.
- Newspaper Source
- Articles by and about Ehrenreich are often published in newspapers. Search this database with her name to see recent publications.
- Sociological Abstracts
- Articles by Ehrenreich are often published in the professional literature of sociology. Search this database with her name to see recent publications.
- Academic Universe
- Articles by and about Ehrenreich are often published in newspapers. She also makes appearances on public affairs shows. Search this database with her name to see recent publications.
Read more about how welfare reform, gender, class, income levels, and race can affect our outlook and chances in life:
Books
- NKUIRE
- Search here for books on these topics. Try using terms such as "minimum wage," "social classes," "race discrimination," "welfare recipients," and "poverty--United States."
- CQ Researcher (Reference shelves, 3rd floor)
- Excellent weekly reports on topics of current interest by a well-respected publisher. Search for reports on minimum wage, the living wage movement, poverty, and income.
Articles from Popular and News Publications
- Academic Search Premier
- Use this index to find periodical articles from popular, consumer-oriented magazines and journals in many fields.
- Academic Universe
- Use this database to find articles from news sources, transcripts, and popular journals.
- SIRS Researcher
- Use this highly user-friendly database to find articles and reports from newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.
- Facts.com
- This database contains excellent, lengthy, full-text reports on topics of public interest. Try searching the "Issues and Controversies" section.
Articles from Scholarly Journals
- Sociological Collection
- A selection of full text articles from over 560 journals in the social and behavioral sciences.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
- A Selection of psychology and psychiatry full text articles from over 470 scholarly journals.
- Social Sciences Index
- Index to international, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
- Humanities Index
- Index to periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
- EconLit
- Search this online database to find articles, books, and papers in the scholarly literature of economics.
- Alternative Press Index
- Search this online database for articles from the alternative press
Web Sites
- Employment Policies Institute
- Studies and press releases on minimum wage, living wage, and other labor issues. The Employment Policies Institute is a non-profit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth. In particular, EPI focuses on issues that affect entry-level employment.
- AmeriStat
- U.S. population issues, trends, and statistics are presented in an easy-to-use format. Selected topics include Population Estimates and Projections, Education, Race and Ethnicity, Income and Poverty, and Mortality. Produced by the Population Reference Bureau in collaboration with demographer William Frey and his colleagues at the University of Michigan.
- Public Agenda Online
- This site addresses controversial issues including crime, the economy, education, the family, health care, race, social security, and welfare.
- Economic Report of the President
- Current and several previous fiscal years' federal budgets, plus spreadsheets, analyses, and historical statistics. Of special interest is Changing America, a report on "differences in well-being by race and Hispanic origin."
- Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
- Founded to do "research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States," this institute's site consists of organizational information, including current research, and publications. Subjects range from activism to welfare reform. Based at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
- FedStats: The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
- Find statistics published by all the agencies of the Federal government. We recommend using the "Search across agency websites" link.
updated: Tuesday, 23-Aug-2005 15:53:46 EDT