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This 5 page report discusses Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and her use of a reference to Linder and Nygaard’s Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time. The effectiveness of using that reference is discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Americans life. Factors that extend beyond the matching of job skills, experience, education, and socio-economic realities all come into play as one considers the impact and long-term ramifications of a
particular work situation on both society at large and the individual workers experience. As she worked as a Wal-Mart clerk, a hotel maid, a waitress, and other "menial" jobs, Ehrenreich
found that all work requires a specific measure of skill and certainly the process of expending energy. She shows the less than complimentary view of how American prosperity looks from
the bottom up. She experiences the concept of exploitation that some of the modern worlds best-known sociologists, philosophers, and political economists have railed about and against for the past 150
years. But what may serve as one of the most horrific of examples of the ways in which some workers are completely dominated by their work environment is the fact
that even their bodily functions are regulated and determined by the time-clock. One of the citations she references in her work is that of Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks
and the Right to Urinate on Company Time by Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard (1998). In it, the authors consider the practice in many workplaces, especially those that involve continuous
process manufacturing, or factories doing meat and poultry packaging that deny employees adequate rest breaks throughout their work day. To make that even more clear, it should be understood that
"rest breaks" is actually an euphemism for other euphemisms such as "heeding the call of nature," "powdering your nose," "making a pit stop" or simply, using the toilet.
This is not a matter of "holding it" until it is most convenient but a requirement that does not offer any other options. Ehrenreichs Experience Initially, the reader can look
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