Nickel and Dimed; By Barbara Ehrenreich

In the book Nickel and Dimed On (not) Getting By in America the author Barbara Ehrenreich, attempts to go under cover as a minimum wage worker. Her primary reason for going under cover is to see if she can “match income to expenses as the truly poor attempt to do everyday.”(Ehrenreich 6) Also Ehrenreich makes it extremely clear that her work was not designed to make her “experience poverty.”(6) After completing the assignment, which was …

…journalist makes one feel like she is. Throughout her investigation in Florida she describes the situations she and her co-workers go through in such a descriptive and vivid manner that the reader cannot help but begin to understand how difficult the lives of those workers must be. Barbara Ehrenreich opens the door to a new world that not many upper class Americans know about, but soon will after reading this extremely unique and interesting book.