3)+LHS+Books+Minimum+Wage

**//The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy//** (331.2 POL)
By Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce Examines the growing trend in municipalities throughout the country to enact laws which require companies receiving government contracts to pay their workers decent wages and reasonable benefits, and looks at the impact of such policies on the community, the companies, the workers, and the problem of low-wage poverty.

//**Nickel and Dimed: on (not) Getting by in America**// (305.5 HER) By Barbara Ehrenreich Author Barbara Ehrenreich relates her experiences from 1998 to 2000, during which time joined the ranks of the working poor as a waitress, hotel housekeeper, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk to see for herself how America's "unskilled" workers are able to survive on only $6 or $7 an hour.

//**Working in the Shadows: a Year of Doing the Jobs (most) Americans Won’t Do**// (331.6 THO) By Gabriel Thompson An account of a journalist's year working alongside America's poorest workers, legal and illegal, who work for minimum wage or less. Describes picking lettuce in Arizona, working at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama, and making deliveries on bicycle in Manhattan. Exposes the exploitation of hourly workers that support the affluent American lifestyle.

//**The Minimum Wage**// (344.73 MIN) By Uma Kukathas, book editor Presents debates on the minimum wage issues as it examines how the courts have helped to shape each issue through their rulings.

__** Specific Job Books and Webpath Express: **__
Webpath Express from the library catalog offers these sites: Become an Emergency Medical (EMT) The National Association of EMT's Career Information Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
 * ==== Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) ====

//Automotive Master Mechanic// by Boraas, Tracey (629.28 BOR) Webpath Express from the library catalog offers these sites: Career: Automobile Mechanics Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
 * Automobile Mechanic

//Sales and Distribution// by Linda Barrett& Galen Guengerich (658.8 BAR) //Careers in Focus-Retail// (381 CAR) //Opportunities in Retail Careers// by Roslyn Doler (381 DOL) //Career Opportunies in the Retail & Wholesale Industry// by Shelly Field (381 FIE) //Retail Salesperson//- Interlibrary Loan
 * Retail Worker