Powerless low-wage American Workers
For decades, American workers have worked under deplorable conditions, in spite of the government 's efforts and assurances that they would do their best to try and improve the workers conditions. Barbara Ehrenreich, who has been proclaimed as one of the most original and vibrant journalists, tries to expose the impoverished life of the minimum wage society. She came to a decision that the best way to depict it is by joining them and stepping into the shoes of American minimum wage workers. She does it by going undercover and seeking a job as an unskilled worker, and in the process keeps recorded evidence of the day to day experiences. As she becomes familiar with the system, what intrigues her are the …show more content…
Even though this is just an experiment, Ehrenreich faces many challenges in each stage of the experiment. What Ehrenreich illustrates in the book is that she could not truly predict the struggles of her low-wage life and the struggle of her coworker would look like because as a middle-class scientist, she didn 't know poverty until she experienced working with her coworker in different jobs.
The book Nickel and dimed: On (not) Getting by in America is a book written by Ehrenreich Barbara who is one of the most proclaimed journalists, aims are to investigate the minimum wage of poor working Americans. Barbra Ehrenreich illustrates a clear picture of how the poor working Americans struggles very hard to satisfy basic needs. For instance, she explains that most poor people had to settle on basic shelter especially due to higher rent costs because their working wages are unable to cover monthly rent. Furthermore, she investigates and finds out that some of her coworkers have to share rent with others," Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $ 250 a week. Her roommate, a …show more content…
She never expects that she would find inhumane cruelty of American low-wage worker. Although she never really stay and works for a long period of time, she obtains life lesson from her coworker, and she learns about the deplorable condition of poverty-stricken American lives and submissiveness of these American accepting their unfortunate life. She left the readers wondering about what would happen if she were to spend more time in each palace working as a minimum wage worker. Would she break under the pressure or would she give in and go back to her old self after a few months. She could not predict what would happen during this experiment. She really faced what other workers really envisage as a middle-class scientist but she did sacrifice everything in order to carry out the investigative journalism. Therefore, she decides to expose it to the public and gives voice to the powerless low-wage American
For decades, American workers have worked under deplorable conditions, in spite of the government 's efforts and assurances that they would do their best to try and improve the workers conditions. Barbara Ehrenreich, who has been proclaimed as one of the most original and vibrant journalists, tries to expose the impoverished life of the minimum wage society. She came to a decision that the best way to depict it is by joining them and stepping into the shoes of American minimum wage workers. She does it by going undercover and seeking a job as an unskilled worker, and in the process keeps recorded evidence of the day to day experiences. As she becomes familiar with the system, what intrigues her are the …show more content…
Even though this is just an experiment, Ehrenreich faces many challenges in each stage of the experiment. What Ehrenreich illustrates in the book is that she could not truly predict the struggles of her low-wage life and the struggle of her coworker would look like because as a middle-class scientist, she didn 't know poverty until she experienced working with her coworker in different jobs.
The book Nickel and dimed: On (not) Getting by in America is a book written by Ehrenreich Barbara who is one of the most proclaimed journalists, aims are to investigate the minimum wage of poor working Americans. Barbra Ehrenreich illustrates a clear picture of how the poor working Americans struggles very hard to satisfy basic needs. For instance, she explains that most poor people had to settle on basic shelter especially due to higher rent costs because their working wages are unable to cover monthly rent. Furthermore, she investigates and finds out that some of her coworkers have to share rent with others," Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $ 250 a week. Her roommate, a …show more content…
She never expects that she would find inhumane cruelty of American low-wage worker. Although she never really stay and works for a long period of time, she obtains life lesson from her coworker, and she learns about the deplorable condition of poverty-stricken American lives and submissiveness of these American accepting their unfortunate life. She left the readers wondering about what would happen if she were to spend more time in each palace working as a minimum wage worker. Would she break under the pressure or would she give in and go back to her old self after a few months. She could not predict what would happen during this experiment. She really faced what other workers really envisage as a middle-class scientist but she did sacrifice everything in order to carry out the investigative journalism. Therefore, she decides to expose it to the public and gives voice to the powerless low-wage American