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This 3 page paper discusses Barbara Ehrenreich's attitude toward the situation she describes in her book "Nickel and Dimed," and argues that she is deeply and lastingly angry. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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old U.S. of A. In her book Nickel and dimed, she goes undercover to answer a question that most people choose to ignore: how can people live on minimum wage
in this country? The answer: they cant. For three months, Ehrenreich presented herself "as an unskilled worker, a homemaker needing to earn a living after divorce" (Gallagher, 2001). She
thus had no truly marketable skills, and no choice but to enter the "low end of the labor market" (Gallagher, 2001). She went to three different parts of the country
and worked for a month in each region, and soon found out what life is like for those who try to live on the wages paid at the low end
of the service industry. The life of such a worker is all about finding enough money for the basics: rent and food-never mind going to a movie, buying a desperately
needed pair of shoes, or a new lipstick. There is nothing left over at this level of poverty, even though these people are working full time, or more than full
time. Ehrenreichs overwhelming emotion, and it comes through clearly, is anger, an anger that is shared by many people. This is the richest nation in the world, and yet we
routinely refuse to raise the minimum wage, allowing business to get away with its perpetual whine that if they increase their workers salaries by fifty cents an hour (big whoop!)
theyll soon become unprofitable and have to start laying people off. Ehrenreich exposes this for the BS it is. Profits have never been higher, and the reason low-wage workers remain
in that stratum is because they are powerless. They desperately need whatever job they can find; they are not unionized, and because they absolutely have to work they cannot take
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