Hunger, homelessness and sickness are all things that most people would associate with a third world country. This is however the underground society of the U.S. There are hungry and homeless people here at home and the worst thing about it is they are not bums on the street. They are hard working people with full time jobs and quite often an extra part time job on top of that. To just get a glimpse of this is one thing but one girl decided to take it one step further and she joined the life of these people for a short time and then she wrote a book about it. After a thorough reading of her book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich very clearly conveys the sad state that these minimum wage workers are living in. .
There are many hardships on these people working minimum wage jobs. First there is the problem of getting a job. Take applying at Wal-Mart for example. When Barbara went undercover in Minnesota she applied at Wal-Mart. The application process is overly painstaking. They first make you go through the application process which includes an aptitude test. Then you are given an interview in which your "unacceptable" answers are inquired about. After that you must wait a week for a drug test which takes around an hour and forty minutes. And after all of this you still might not even get the job as was the case for Barbara. She was solely put on a waiting list after all the time and money (gas is two dollars a gallon she say's) she put into the application process. .
The second problem that they face is getting a place to live. Housing is hard to find as it is. Add to it the fact that you cannot get enough money together to put a down payment on an apartment. All the money you make goes to where you are staying from day to day, perhaps a motel, and food. If you can even manage to get a job and a place to stay the quality of living is unbelievably low. The places that Barbara was able to afford were so small and dilapidated that they should be considered unlivable.
Nickel & Dimed By Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich is a journalist who posed as an unskilled worker in 1998 to highlight the struggles encountered every day by Americans attempting to live on minimum wage. ... Nickel & Dimed is about her ecperiences as the traveled around america trying to make ends meet just like millions of Americans do everyday. ...
Nickel & Dimed Evaluation Q: Considering the evidence reported by Ehrerich- which paradigm, theories and or concepts from the stratification chapters are supported in her research findings? Cite the excerpts, quotes and pages to show how they support or refute the paradigms and concepts from th...
The employee in the book Nickel and Dimed was without trust ,ill treated and without praise. This type of treatment lower the employee self estemm. Molly Maid is prime example to show how they work their employee to the limit without any reconition. The team work with the maids was absolutely am...
I Work for a Living Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is the tale of a middle-aged professional (with Ph.D.!) ... Two years ago I wrote a story for The Siskiyou Newspaper, an "old-fashioned journalism" story (not unlike Nickel and Dimed). ... Consequently, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed holds a special place in my heart. ...
Nickel And Dimed Nickel and Dimed The United States of America is the richest nation in the world. Very poor countries look to us for help. We give them clothes, food, and housing. I understand as a rich nation we should help out some of the less fortunate people in the world, but what a...
Nickel and Dimed Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, is a well written but frightening book that looks into the real lives of invisible, low wage, hard working Americans. ... Nickel and Dimed is a well written book that provides the truth to many unspoken topics that arise in our society. ...
nickle and dimed 4. ... Nickel and Dimed was written in a very momentous time for the nation's poor people. ... In the book Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich talked about poverty in many occasions and she went on to describe the lives that her co-workers lived. ...
Nickel and Dimed Frederick Taylor, known as the father of scientific management, takes responsibility for the change in the American workplace organization throughout the twentieth century. ... Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, raises awareness of the lives of low-wage, poverty stricken people being pushed into the labor Market by welfare reform, by highlighting the struggles they encounter daily. ...
