Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich · 2001
Ehrenreich goes undercover in minimum-wage America. Waitressing, cleaning, retail. She proves you cannot survive on the bottom.
The case against
Ehrenreich plays poverty as a month-per-city experiment with a car, a safety net, and an exit date; her coworkers live the condition she is sampling, and the book sometimes condescends to them on the way through. The sardonic asides wear thin, and the conclusion (you cannot survive on these wages) was already known to everyone earning them.
Non-Fiction · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.