The United States of America is the richest nation in the world. Very poor countries look to us for help. We give them clothes, food, and housing. I understand as a rich nation we should help out some of the less fortunate people in the world, but what about the poor people of America. In this book, Ehrenreich, explores what it is like to work for very low wages in America. She learns how it is a very hard job, physically and mentally, on the person struggling to make ends meet.
In 1999 and 2000, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress in Key West, Fla., as a cleaning woman and a nursing home aide in Portland, Maine, and in a Wal-Mart in Minneapolis, Minn. She first finds out that meeting her rent is a lot more difficult then she thought. As a waitress in Florida, she struggles each month to reach her rent of $675. As rental prices go up in America, people's wages do not. They struggle, working 7 days a week, most working more than one job, just to meet rent cost. In all three jobs she sees many examples of how the common person struggles each day. She describes full-time workers who sleep in their cars because they cannot afford housing and employees who yearn for the ability to "take a day off now and then-and still be able to buy groceries the next day. These ideas are very scary but they are reality. Many of these employees at this level are not working just for themselves, but for their children also. Public funding is not always available and I it is, most of the time it does not cover all the expenses of the families needs. Because unemployment is so high in America, the people who work these jobs fight to keep them. They work very hard for very little. Civil liberties are often ignored and hard work fails to live up to its reputation as the ticket out of poverty They accept the bad conditions because they know that there is someone else out there ready to take their job if they do not keep it.
Nickel & Dimed By Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich is a journalist who posed as an unskilled worker in 1998 to highlight the struggles encountered every day by Americans attempting to live on minimum wage. ... Nickel & Dimed is about her ecperiences as the traveled around america trying to make ends meet just like millions of Americans do everyday. ...
Nickel & Dimed Evaluation Q: Considering the evidence reported by Ehrerich- which paradigm, theories and or concepts from the stratification chapters are supported in her research findings? Cite the excerpts, quotes and pages to show how they support or refute the paradigms and concepts from th...
The employee in the book Nickel and Dimed was without trust ,ill treated and without praise. This type of treatment lower the employee self estemm. Molly Maid is prime example to show how they work their employee to the limit without any reconition. The team work with the maids was absolutely am...
I Work for a Living Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is the tale of a middle-aged professional (with Ph.D.!) ... Two years ago I wrote a story for The Siskiyou Newspaper, an "old-fashioned journalism" story (not unlike Nickel and Dimed). ... Consequently, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed holds a special place in my heart. ...
Nickel and Dimed Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, is a well written but frightening book that looks into the real lives of invisible, low wage, hard working Americans. ... Nickel and Dimed is a well written book that provides the truth to many unspoken topics that arise in our society. ...
nickle and dimed 4. ... Nickel and Dimed was written in a very momentous time for the nation's poor people. ... In the book Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich talked about poverty in many occasions and she went on to describe the lives that her co-workers lived. ...
Nickel and Dimed Frederick Taylor, known as the father of scientific management, takes responsibility for the change in the American workplace organization throughout the twentieth century. ... Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, raises awareness of the lives of low-wage, poverty stricken people being pushed into the labor Market by welfare reform, by highlighting the struggles they encounter daily. ...
