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In “Nickel and Dimed”, Ehrenreich, the highly skilled journalist, wonders, “How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?’ and, ‘How, in particular, we wondered, were the roughly four million women about to be booted into the labor market by

In our everyday lives we tend to pass for someone we are not. Sometimes it can be for a negative intention or a positive one. When reading this book called Nickel and Dimed which relates to identity passing it shows that she was passing as a low-wage worker yet she was a middle class. This book has expanded my understanding of identity/passing because my friend Jennifer’s perspective and mine were interesting to compare and see the similarities to the things that stood out the most from the book

Do you believe in the American Dream? Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, used to believe in it, which changed after she replaced her identity as a writer and a biological scientist with a divorced, childless, middle-aged woman and worked at the bottom of the society for several years. Serving in Florida was an excerpt from Nickel and Dimed, describing her experience as a restaurant waitress in Florida. In the excerpt, to show the harsh working condition and busy working schedules

Name: Kruti Shah BU ID: Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting by in America Summary Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) getting by in America reveals low wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity- a land of big boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Barbara Ehrenreich, a scientist by training and a well known American writer and political activist emphasizes on the poverty of millions of low wage Americans as a state of emergency. She stated

A Journey “Too Extreme” In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich proclaims that while on a mission to experience the struggles in the everyday life of the poor, she will never be able to fully understand what it’s like to be in that situation. Throughout her journey, she comes across many different people and job opportunities, making for a different outcome every time. Although there was variation of variables, her response to troubling situations was always the same: giving up. For example, while

Throughout the novel Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, the author documents her journey working on minimum wage and trying to live off of the low wages. She found that living on minimum wage is a challenging task that requires sacrifice, dedication, hard work, and motivation to live. Ehrenreich found that the life of a minimum wage worker is full of injustice and helps bring to light the treatment and conditions for these people. She initially discovered that minimum wage does not support a

“Nickel and Dimed: On (NOT) Getting By in America” is a book that describes the real problems the lower class has to face everyday in these low income jobs, such as stress and lack of benefits. The book also shows how the poor struggle with low- income jobs and how they manage to get by with the low- income checks from these jobs. In the beginning of the book Barbara Ehrenreich, who is journalist pitches an idea to Lewis Lapham, who is the editor of Harper’s magazine. She tells him “Someone ought

classes of America are constantly being taken advantage of. They remain overworked, underpaid, and continue to endure some of the most mentally and physically draining tasks on a daily basis just to get by and provide for themselves and their families. Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich is about the plight of the working lower-middle class American, and the author’s own attempt to experience their troubles first hand as she tries to juggle minimum wage employment, housing, and her own physical

Nickel and Dimed The theme of “Nickel and Dimed” is how people making minimum wage have been treated in America. Ehrenreich traveled to different places to find out how people were being treated and how minimum wage workers couldn't survive on what they were being paid. Even though Ehrenreich was only doing these jobs to journal about them she still experienced the same hard times and pains actual minimum wage workers did. This book by Barbara Ehrenreich was published January 1st, 2001. Nickel and

In Chapter three of “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich, one of the most significant scenarios I would say is when Barbara is talking with Caroline about her lifestyle. Caroline lives in a $825-a-month rental home with her husband and two children. They are considered middle-class because they make close to $40,000 a year, but scraping by to make ends meet. Caroline goes on to tell of her low-wage life; this includes a hotel room cleaning job in Florida, and now book keeping job in Minnesota