Identify two central ideas Ehrenreich writes about; analyze how she develops these ideas as she writes chapter 1 (include how the ideas interact and build on each other). One of her main ideas that she shares are how she paced herself. She described how she plans out her budget (page 27), balancing the rent, groceries, and emergency money. Ehrenreich also shares her struggles with getting a second job to keep up with the rent (pg 28). She starts out saying that she can work with the two jobs (pg 45), but after a few days, the housekeeping job didn’t work out (pg 48), and then she walked out of the diner that she was working at, “an overwhelming dank sense of failure pressing down on me...” (pg 48) was the only feeling she got. Another main idea was how working required incredible feats of stamina, focus, memory, quick thinking, and fast learning (pgs 16-21). The
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Ehrenreich describes herself as having to present a drastically stripped-down version of herself to her employers (pg 5). Her background consisted of her being divorced homemaker with three years of college education, a few housecleaning jobs and after-dinner cleanups. Her interaction with coworkers however didn’t change. (Pg 7) She stated she wore usual clothes, hairstyles, and makeup. She spoke about her children and marriage, etc. Although she did modify her vocabulary , censoring profanities, otherwise her speech didn’t change.
At this point in your reading, what is Ehrenreich’s claim or argument? Her argument seems to be that living on minimum wage isn’t a very enjoyable life. The constant ache and stress is enough to drive anyone crazy, having to pay for the rent and groceries is hard even working fulltime.
Ehrenreich conducts her experiment in the late 1990s. List 3 differences between that minimum wage worker’s world and that of today’s minimum wage worker. 1. Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, back then it was $5.15 an
Ehrenreich describes herself as having to present a drastically stripped-down version of herself to her employers (pg 5). Her background consisted of her being divorced homemaker with three years of college education, a few housecleaning jobs and after-dinner cleanups. Her interaction with coworkers however didn’t change. (Pg 7) She stated she wore usual clothes, hairstyles, and makeup. She spoke about her children and marriage, etc. Although she did modify her vocabulary , censoring profanities, otherwise her speech didn’t change.
At this point in your reading, what is Ehrenreich’s claim or argument? Her argument seems to be that living on minimum wage isn’t a very enjoyable life. The constant ache and stress is enough to drive anyone crazy, having to pay for the rent and groceries is hard even working fulltime.
Ehrenreich conducts her experiment in the late 1990s. List 3 differences between that minimum wage worker’s world and that of today’s minimum wage worker. 1. Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, back then it was $5.15 an