Xige Wu (Jessica)
5th hour
A Life Lesson from the Nickel and Dimed

To investigate the life of low-wage unskilled workers, Barbara Ehrenreich found herself in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota as a waitress and housekeeper. After all, Barbara composed these experience into a book: Nickel and Dimed. In this book, Barbara describes her harsh experience as a minimum wage worker who fought to live with a low salary and a high housing cost.

Even though this book is not as interesting as action fictions nor it is as attractive as the romantic books, it shows the readers the facts of the difficulties low-wage workers face, allowing the readers to understand these people and forgive them for small mistakes, such as a waiter forget to refill a customer's