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This 7 page paper examines Ehrenreich's book and the concepts it elicits. Social stratification is discussed in the context of her studies as well as in respect to what the following sociologists believed: Marx, Durkhiem, Weber, Simmel, and Veblen. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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well. 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 unsatisfying. Her experience is not unique. What is unique is the exposure of
the myth that anyone can make it in America. People do live the way that the author exposed. They do this everyday and one sees the same people at the
7-11s buying minutes for a phone card or paying too much for their doughnut and coffee. It has always been the case that the poor pay more. Many are borderline
homeless and do not even have phones. The cost of a local phone call in many regions is perhaps fifty cents. Most people--and particularly those in the middle class--cannot conceive
of not having a telephone but the truth is that because people do not have good credit, a down payment for an apartment or services, they end up on the
streets living on wages equivalent to five or six dollars per hour. As if that is not hard enough, they pay more for everything because they have no credit. It
seems to be a vicious cycle that is difficult to escape. 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.
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