Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, by Barbara Ehrenreich

In her book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting America in America" ​​(2001), Barbara Ehrenreich performed social experiments where he transplanted himself from a comfortable middle class living, With the plight of Americans who have soaked in people. Her goal is to explore the impact of welfare reform on about 4 million women forcibly introduced into the labor market, and expects only income per hour (Ehrenreich, 2001) . $ 6 to $ 7.

In the excerpt of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich, which was acquired in the United States (but not), keeps the secret and accepts minimum wage payments as a maid. It was young at 30 years old, but this comparative advantage found less impact on them than they did Ehrenreich earned enough for her to work very hard as a maid and to make her pass, She did not get it. "" "American dream. In fact, work is very difficult, people working with her have done too much physical labor, they did not even associate what they do with the "American dream", but those "shell conditions Accept

In the US working class and the poor, there are hotel butler, waitress, maid, retail clerk. When Nick and Dimed: On (Not) came to America, Barbara Ehrenreich was involved in a series of low-wage jobs in 1998 and explained her experience of trying to survive on wages. In other low-wage jobs, she works at Wal-Mart and earns $ 6.00 an hour. In addition to trying to survive with her salary, she also stated about Wal - Mart 's way of working overtime without wages. The administrator notifies the worker to watch and start additional work (free of charge).