Nickel And Dimed Essay

The introduction of the book “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich, it talks about where Barbara and the editor, Lewis Lapham discovered the idea of this book. The two were having a lunch at an expensive restaurant and Ehrenreich concern was how people with low job skilled are able to make living with small income. Her primary concerned was towards women who are about to be on job hunt because of the reformation of the government welfare. Ehrenreich stated that she could not see herself going through this. She even mentioned how her fellow college student were seeking for jobs in the 1960s just to be part of the working class, and even some family were surviving off low wages however she was never interested doing them tasks. Since she has Ph.D. in biology, Ehrenreich established a scientific approach to create some limitations while going undercover as an unwell educated, divorce, and a lower person of who she really is. She going

She started her investigation in a small town called Key West in Florida where quickly find a apartment for $500 per month. She started to file job application which require many unimportant questions to answers and they requirement that needs to be completed before you are officially hired. Now this process could be very diffivlut for someone who has never been through this before. Someone like Ehrenreich was will find this road very hard because she never have to do that. Although it is interesting how she was able to go against her will to find out what these people have to do deal with. She finds work at a restaurant as a waitress where she will have to work from 2:00pm to 10:00pm for $2.43 per hour. She quickly became to know that there is really no difference of being a fake waitress and a real one. She experience the tiredness and deprivation waitress go through after standing and walking back and forth all