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In an attempt to expose the poverty and limited opportunities of poorer class citizens in the American economy, Ehrenreich utilizes personalized anecdotes to demonstrate the workers’ struggles. By discussing her temporary experience in the workforce, Ehrenreich provides compelling examples of her social experiment to promote awareness of the lower class situation. Specifically, Ehrenreich attempts to convince the reader that it is more difficult for a person to exhume themselves from poverty…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, Serving in Florida details the struggles of low wage work and the lack of social mobility. Barbara tries to find work and believes she can afford to live in the Key West area of Florida, a rather cheap part of the country. She eventually receives a job at Hearthside, and learns how to be a waitress from a nice lady named Gail. Barbara feels like the job is okay and that she can live on the low wages for a while. But, there are several problems, which…

Tamara: Good morning, this is Tamara Benson, host of Book Talk. On today’s show, I’m interviewing Alex Quentin, the author of the new book Unlucky Penny. Alex, could you tell us a little bit about the book? Alex: Thanks for having me on the show. To put it simply, Unlucky Penny is my attempt to convince the United States government to get rid of the penny. Tamara: That certainly seems like quite the undertaking! What inspired you to write this book? Alex: When I was young, I used to collect…

In the novel Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara is an undercover journalist looking to write on how people in the lower class get by on minimum wage. She finds out through her journey, that most of them don’t. She has many different experiences, but she really evolves toward the end of her journey. She realises that the managers, and the bigger companies treat the employees like suspected criminals. I believe that this influences the employees morale negatively and therefore…

Ehrenreich and Co-workers In the novel, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, she leaves her life as a well off journalist to become a low- wage worker. Throughout her experience she comes to realize it is much tougher to maintain herself with minimum wage, than she thought it would be. At first she doesn’t see herself the same as the other blue collar workers but then realizes she has become exactly like them. Although Barbara Ehrenreich begins her journey as a low-wage worker with advantages…

In the late 1990s, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover in three cities throughout the United States to perform various blue-collared jobs. Her goal was to see if a person could really survive on a minimum wage income. In her novel Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America she describes the experiences and obstacles she faced during the experiment. After reading her book in college, Adam Shepard disagreed with Ehrenreich’s views about the life of working class Americans, and he…

Authors employ rhetoric in their writing by implementing a variety of writing techniques and styles, but they all use them with one goal in mind: To persuade the target audience. In the books Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, there are several instances in which both authors use specific styles of rhetoric to persuade the audience to side with certain issues endure throughout their books. The goal of each author is to get the target audience to…

Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, is about a middle-classed woman who does an experiment with the poverty in America. Barbara Ehrenreich workers as an author, but also has a Ph.D. With roughly 45 million Americans living below the poverty level, Ehrenreich attempts to work in three different states, at different jobs working for only minimum wage. She sets a few rules for herself that she is not allowed to break to keep her living situation as minimalist as possible and save…

a) What was your personal response to reading the book? My personal response to Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich is that it was an excellent read and an interesting one. I for one have never given much thought about the struggles of working low wage jobs. And since I haven't worked yet in my life or had any money issues. Thus, to understand what it means to truly struggle and have to work day in and day out at a job that pays barely enough to feed and shelter you is an alien thought. Not…

out of our reality, but sociologists like Barbara Ehrenreich and Sudhir Venkatesh takeBarbara Ehrenreich it upon themselves, to try and understand the lives of those whom are apart of the labor force. In the case of Barbara Ehrenreich, her novel Nickel and Dimed is a compelling story that conveys her experiences while discovering what it is like to be a blue collar worker. Unlike most journalists…