Essays on Nickel and Dimed
The Futile Pursuit of The American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich was authored to correspond from her last novel Nickel and Dimed published in 2001. The Futile Pursuit of The American Dream was published in 2006. In Barbara Ehrenreich’s follow-up installment, she argues that white-collar middle-class people are also very limited in finding and holding on...
Low wage workers during the prosperity period in the nineties lived in a time where the economy was booming and technological advancements were being made. What this meant for workers in America was that companies and businesses posted more job openings to keep up with the demand that came with the boom, which indicates the...
I found out while reading the book that from the beginning, she already has a negative expectation about how life would be with such a low wage. She attempts to prove herself right so that the experiment would meet her expectations. I think she has built the theme of the book on something she was...
