Influences
In documenting the harsh living conditions of the bottom rungs of the working class from a first-person perspective, the book created an effective new genre of social critique. Subsequent examples include Günter Wallraff's Ganz Unten (1985) and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001).
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