A Nickel and Dimed Play Critique "The Rich Get Richer‚ while the Poor Get Poorer" Now more than ever do I understand the phrase‚ "the rich get richer‚ while the poor get poorer." In the play the “Nickel and Dimed”‚ the author Barbara Ehrenreich writes about her experience as a member of the low-wage workforce that serves our meals‚ cleans our homes‚ and cares for our elderly. In her journey she tries to find out just how people survive on the minimum wage salary. To do this experiment she
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cash assistance. In the expo‚ Nickel and Dime‚ Barbara Ehrenreich questioned the “uplifting benefits” of unskilled adults working in a low-wage economy. Ehrenreich’s undercover journalism was her scientific methodology of choice to capture firsthand the experience of poverty in order to prove her theory that it is mathematically impossible for welfare recipients to survive in the low-wage workforce. While following Barbara Ehrenreich journey in “Nickel and Dimed” I realized how certain aspects
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After reading Nickel and Dimed and reviewing the NASW Code of Ethics I found a few parts of the code of ethics Ehrenreich did not follow. I believe she was in breach of privacy and confidentiality‚ dishonesty‚ fraud‚ and deception‚ and integrity. Privacy and confidentiality is a very important aspect of social work. Although Ehrenreich changed the names of her coworkers and places she worked at‚ she still disclosed private information about them they may not have wanted the entire world to know
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Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich used her book Nickel and Dimed to illustrate her job assignment to live in the shoes of and‚ write about her experiences as a minimum wage worker in America. Ehrenreich goes to live in Key West‚ Maine‚ and Minnesota and works low wage jobs‚ sometimes more than one at a time. The point Ehrenreich is trying to make is that it is almost impossible to live a decent life in America with one‚ let alone two jobs paying very low wages. It is tough to be a low wage
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Nickel and Dimed Book Analysis It’s a well known fact that everything in America is over priced‚ so with everything being over priced and citizens being under paid how are we supposed to expect citizens to survive in this rigged economy? Our economy is set up to benefit the middle-upper class and to take away from the lower class. As we stand by and say to the lower class citizens “get a job”‚ “work harder and longer”. In Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich proves that minimum wage cannot sustain
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Daniel Manoni Lisa Aurello Composition ENG H101 11 November 2009 Nickel and Dimed Essay In Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich delves into the `third world’ of America while attempting to make a living. She undertakes many noble trades‚ working in low wage and underappreciated jobs while trying to figure out how the people of this country do it every day. She works at Hearthside and Jerry’s in Florida waitressing‚ with The Maids in Maine cleaning houses‚ and with Wal-Mart in Minnesota‚ serving
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | March 29 2009 A riveting tale about the world of low class workers‚ Ehrenreich puts into words what most are don’t acknowledge or are afraid to acknowledge. Through first-hand experience‚ Ehrenreich successfully navigates her way through the low wage work by working such common low wage jobs as waitressing‚ housecleaning‚ and sales. While along the way discovering that each job encompasses their own organizational structure‚ culture‚ and
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Is America truly the land of endless opportunities? People from all over the world come to the US in high hopes of becoming rich with minimal efforts. Sadly‚ this is not the case. After reading Nickel and Dimed‚ by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ I have a new outlook on individuals struggling to get by on low wage paying jobs in America. Barbara travels to Florida‚ Maine‚ and Minnesota to "investigate" life as low wage worker. She plays a different role in each of these three states to experience the true life
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2. Were your perceptions of the blue collar Americans transformed or reinforced by nickel and dimmed? Have your notions of poverty and prosperity changed since reading the book? What about your own treatments of waiters‚ maids‚ salespeople? My perception of the blue collar Americans was transformed as a result of the book. Previously I had always felt that is someone wanted to find a job‚ they could. If a hard working American went out into the work force looking for a job that could support them
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Dear William Hazlitt‚ The idea you have presented about money in an excerpt from “On the Want of Money” is quite relevant to the experiment I once conducted. Throughout my research‚ I came to the same conclusion as you did: Money causes one to undergo dreadful things such as embarrassment‚ harassment‚ and degrading. A person cannot simply get through life without money. There is a need for it whether it’s physically or mentally. It is necessary for survival in a world in which everything revolves
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