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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" being an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of National prosperity.Millions of Americans work full-time, all year round, for poverty-level earnings. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich chose to join them. She was influenced simply by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that the job -- any job -- could possibly be the solution to a much better existence. But so how exactly does anyone survive, not to mention prosper, on $6 an hour or so?