Barbara Ehrenreich's Analysis

The part that standouts to me the most was when Barbara says, “...I rejected the idea, even after all my upper middle-class friends had, guilty and as covertly as possible, hired help for themselves, because this is just not the kind of relationship I want to have with another human being…” (pg. 91). The author disagrees with the idea of having a maid to clean her house and not wanting to have this sorta connection with other human being. I would remember this because Ehrenreich has viewed the maid as human not a slave. Ehrenreich has understand the mind of a maid and knows how stressful it could be. A maid's body would rot quickly and consequences on health can be later shown as she grows older. Most maid’s have gone to work on upper class