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at Fair Market Rent, working a standard 40-hour work week.” All minimum wage workers cannot afford to live in a standard living space, much less when supporting other people. The living wage is much higher than the minimum wage. In the book Nickel and Dimed, the author Barbara Ehrenreich does an experiment to see if a person could live on minimum wage. She concludes that minimum wage is not able to support a person. That argument is still as relevant today as in 2001. In the
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Written in 1984 by Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not Getting) Getting by in America is an exposé portraying how it is to live with a minimum wage job in America. This piece is a form of a report on an experiment, which she acted upon. Though it may seem like a mocking action to the financially impaired, it was a genuine effort to bring attention to the issue. In brief, she set out to live first-hand what it was like to live with minimum paying jobs in order to bring awareness to the issue
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In the chapter from “Nickel and Dimed” written by Barbara Ehrenreich, low class jobs are discussed as well as the entrapment in them. People working minimum wage jobs deserve to experience a decent standard of living. The jobs they do are necessary. We may think of them as jobs for people with nothing else going for them, but in reality we do need those people working there. Her experiences working menial jobs reminded me of my job at Walgreens. I started working there as a cashier or a “customer
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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
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I think Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed is thoroughly written in a descriptive style that informs the reader about predicaments in the lives of low-wage workers. Her purpose in this memoir is to investigate the life of working in an “unskilled labor”, as she is in fact an upper-middle-class journalist. One of many issues had to deal with health. In the book, Ehrenreich says “After two days of minor [skin] irritation, a full-scale epidermal breakdown is under way...I wake up realizing I can
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problem because in a society classes are a big accomplishment. This has a lot to do with the different kinds of races that are full of themselves. During the book consequences was shown toward the working poor that was brought punishments on. Throughout Nickel and Dimed we are shown that there are many devastating situations to being poor and most of the time when they are in deep poverty there's no way out. The working poor have to stay in hotels day in and out that cost them most of there money , but
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In the year 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich began her project where she wants to know whether working a minimum wage job is enough to provide basic needs for one’s self. She participated in her own project, and in her book “Nickel and Dimed” she shares her experiences working on low wage jobs. The jobs she was able to obtain varied from serving, scrubbing, and selling. In the end, Ehrenreich comes to the conclusion that the poor is poor because they can’t escape from it. Ehrenreich was able
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Real Life Experiment The timeless struggle between the cost of living and the income for low-wage work has made millions of working families unable to meet their basic needs. Barbara Ehrenreich investigates this struggle in her book, Nickel and Dimed. Working low-wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota as an undercover journalist, Ehrenreich gives a lively and interesting account of a low-wage worker’s life. She used first hand experiences, the lives of her co-workers, and added in facts (as
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Carmen Arvelo Northwestern State University SOWK 3350 Barbara Pierce PHD, LMSW, ACSW March 04, 2013 Abstract The author Barbara Ehrenreich sets out on her quest to decide for herself if the working women in America are able to survive on low paying jobs. Accomplishing this will mean living on only what she makes to pay the rent, groceries and gas. The author makes up her mind to seek employment in three different cities around America
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