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This 3-page paper is a review of Barbara Ehrenreich's book, "Nickel and Dimed," which details her experiences working at a series of minimum wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota. The paper examines how the book factors into sociological terms, and the reader's reaction to it.
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the statement that jobs are out there, if people look hard enough. The "jobs," under discussion, however, include the "minimum wage" jobs; waitressing, a Wal-Mart clerk, a nursing home assistant
and so on. The theme she points out here is that the idea that enough hard work will lead a person to wealth is bogus. During her "research, Ehrenreich held
down two jobs (again, minimum wage) and could barely meet her rent and food payments. Through the book (which is delivered in a very nice first-person, amusingly narrative style), Ehrenreich
tries to lift the cover, a little, about the life of the working poor, and the problems this particular population has. She
points out, for one thing, the disposability of the "working poor" noting that, in her own application process in her backyard (Key West), "most of the big hotels run
ads almost continually, if only to build a supply of applicants to replace the current works as they drift away or are fired . . . (p. 15). Basically,
this points out nothing, other than if shed been in the right place at the right time (in which someone had been fired or had drifted away), Ehrenreich might have
been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 an hour, plus tips.
The job, as can be understood, was a nightmare. Her experiences as a dieticians assistant in a nursing home and as a
worker for a temporary maid service (not to mention her job as a discount store clerk -- Wal-Mart -- in Minnesota) were only depressing repeats of her experiences as a
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