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This 3 page paper examines this well known book about how life is unfair for people on minimum wage. How the book relates to unions is examined. No additional sources cited.
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paid, non-unionized workers with those who had unionized manufacturing jobs and found that many without union support had a tough time. Yet, she found that everyone on the bottom echelon
had a tough time, and union workers are no exception. What is interesting about this book is that a writer wanted to find out what it would be like
first hand in order to record the experience. She worked just like they did and collected minimum wage checks to find out that there was no mathematical magic. One cannot
live adequately on a minimum wage salary. Even when she could make ends meet, she put in an inordinate amount of hours and the work was further dissatisfying. Her experience
is not unique. What is unique is the exposure of the myth that anyone can make it in America. Union workers fare better, but not much. Ehrenreich (2002) essentially
describes a phenomenon where the poor can just barely make ends meet if the are lucky. After taking jobs around the nation to prove her point, it does turn out
that it is difficult to make ends meet on minimum wage. Again, people do this everyday. While it seems that in America there are few who are literally starving to
death--there is AFDC, shelters, charities--there are two classes in society which are the haves and the "have nots." This observation is truly Marxian. To suggest that there are two classes
of people in America is almost blasphemous to the doctrine of democracy, but it is true to a great extent. Much of what the problem centers on is this division
between classes and the remnants of capitalism. Although the larger picture is not really broached by this writer whose work does bring up larger points, the idea of unionization
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