The Struggle In Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel And Dimed

In Nickel and Dimed, chapter 3 talks about the struggle Barbara Ehrenreich faced when she land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She figure that there are more job opportunities out there, and people from there are liberals and friendly towards each other. After settling down at a friend’s house for few days, she started looking for work. She applied for retail stores and was able to gain a job at Wal-Mart by completing a survey. However, she did not end up getting that job because some of her answers were incorrect on the survey and she was asked to take a drug test. She continued her job hunting ended up finding work at a hardware store. She has complete a tests over there as well such as drug, and written. This made her anxious so she went to a GNC store to buy detox product to clean her system. On that weekend she met Caroline who suggest her to some churches because they likely to help her out with things that she really need. On her way to her drug test Ehrenreich was thought about the things that you have to do for a job alone is depressing and takes lot of your time. …show more content…
She graded herself well as a low-wage worker and believe that there is no such is an unskilled or low skill worker, based on what been through. Ehrenreich point out that poor people could not keep with rich people in terms housing because everything is almost restricted and some people are unable to compete. She insists that it is a problem the way the government set up who belongs in poverty. While on her investigation, she believes that low wage workers cannot stand up for themselves because they are controlled by employers and managers. Ehrenreich also thinks that politicians have something to do with low wage workers and their situations since Democrats created the well-fare and republicans wants to diminish