Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate - An Economist's Travelogue by Michael D Yates

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"Here's the travel book the chamber of commerce doesn't want you to have. It shows you the way to places of great beauty, but it also invites you into the parts of real America that other books avoid—gated communities in small towns, homeless kids in our cities, poor people of color toiling at arduous and poorly-paid labor, burgeoning economic inequality, environmental destruction in our national parks."—Jim Hightower, national radio commentator.

Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael Yates took early retirement in 2001. He and his wife have moved around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.

Monthly Review Press, softcover, 263pp, index

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