She would travel to three different cities; find a job, an affordable apartment with enough left over for food and rent. She found out very quickly that it is not easy to find a well paying job and afford a place to live. She may have also written this book to expose the problem that thousands of people are barely paid enough to live in hotels or small apartments, and to show to the middle class and upper class that this problem exists and is getting worse and something needs to be done to solve this problem. She may have also wanted to send a message to corporations that because they would rather pay their employees less in order to increase their profit, that at the same time their hurting the people that work for them. Ehrenreich was hoping that after writing this book, serious changes would take place such as increase in wages, creation of unions or some kind of medical plans to help their employees. In her eyes, a good way to make people pay attention to this problem was go out and work at low paying jobs and live in a hotel room and small apartments, rather than just writing a book with just statistics and not investigating for herself. She could have also written this book hoping that the government might step in do something to help these individuals, either by raising the minimum wage or passing laws to help the low paying citizens of this country. She could have also simply had some bills to pay and wrote this book, whatever her true intention was, Ehrenreich has definitely gained attention and maybe changes are on the way. .
Questions.
I/1 After reading Nickel and Dimed I felt very differently about the average Blue-collar Americans who work for very low wages. Before reading this book I was not aware the problem was this bad, I thought that if someone had a job they were able to buy an apartment and the essential things you need to survive. Now that I have read this book I am now aware that having a job doesn't mean your making by in this country.
