Nickel and Dimed I have come to realize how much work low wage workers actually do. I have worked in a fast food restaurant only once and it was hard work but I did not get a major feel for the field because I was not there for very long. Barbara Ehrenreich did a good job as far as showing people‚ or telling people how it is to work in the low wage field but it was hard for me to get a real perception of everything because I knew in the back of my mind that she was not really a low wage worker. I do
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survive in this rigged economy? Our economy is set up to benefit the middle-upper class and to take away from the lower class. As we stand by and say to the lower class citizens “get a job”‚ “work harder and longer”. In Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich proves that minimum wage cannot sustain the quality of life that is perceived as the American Dream let alone provide for a livable life at all. No matter how hard you work or how determined you are it just isn’t possible to live and prosper off
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In the essay “Serving in Florida‚” Barbara Ehrenreich records managers being the “class enemy” and how low level jobs are inadequate in terms of pay. She states that most managers and assistant managers were prior underdog employees of the restaurant business and they are only there to make the big bucks for corporations. Ehrenreich bemoans how managers are the “class enemy”; for instance‚ they never allow servers to take a one second break but the manager’s just sit down all the time and don’t do
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2001 during the blow up of the internet. The book was spreading and a group of college freshmen were even assigned to read it. Ehrenreich even learned that a young man set out himself to try what she did but he started out in a homeless shelter and at the end‚ he had an apartment and thousands of dollars saved. He went on to write his own book and actually accuse Ehrenreich about her lack of motivation to succeed. She was even called “The Antichrist of North Carolina” and many people didn’t seem so
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Sarah Levy Professor M.Marca English 97 2 December 2008 Shame and Humiliation Nickel and Dimed‚ written by Barbara Ehrenreich has been published in 2001 for the first time. This book explains and describes the condition of the working poor in United States in the 21st century. To write this book the author who is a well-known journalist at the New York Times decides to experience being a low-wage worker for a few months. She gives up her middle class life to become and live as a working poor
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Although authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Matthew B. Crawford both obtain a higher degree from a university‚ both continue to work low-income jobs for different reasons. Ehrenreich believes minimum wage work is challenging in all aspects of the employment. She has the option to remove herself from this lifestyle but continues to stay in order to gain experience for her book "Nickel and Dimed". Crawford on the other hand finds a deeper appreciation for the working class‚ and even though he has an option
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accounts of women who had worked in such fields. One of them that particularly stood out was Cathy. Cathy was expected to work 16 hours a day and was promised a certain sum of money in her employment contract but never received the full amount (Ehrenreich & Hochschild‚ p.116). Her boss also took her bank book and and any legal documents she had so she would not be able to get money from
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put themselves in their shoes and see the world through their eyes. Personal observations or experiences can help a reader better understand an argument and sometimes help relate the writing to the readers own life. Christina Boufis and Barbara Ehrenreich both use personal observations and factual data to write their reports. In my opinion I believe the use of personal observation/or experience really helped both of these author’s in writing their reports. The use of factual information is always
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is responding to an acquaintance asking her what her ethnic background is. Ehrenreich finds her purpose for writing her essay in making readers aware that no ethnic background is in fact a background. She takes on a not so common viewpoint of herself as most people pride themselves in where they came from and the traditions of their culture‚ rather than feeling almost embarrassed to claim their background. Ehrenreich claims that she has no ethnic background‚ disregarding her Scottish‚ English
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Title-Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is significant because Ehrenreich does explain how many do “survive” off of minimum wage which really is not much. 2. Author-Barbara Ehrenreich is seventy-one years of age and is a widely-read and award-winning columnist and essayist‚ and author of 21 books which include: Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives; and Fear of Falling. 3. Persona- Ehrenreich persona is described as credible because she displays her story through real events
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