YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel and Dimed
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been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...
for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...
In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...
and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" Ehrenreich takes on a new identity to secure work in the blue collar workforce fulfilli...
handle on that ever elusive definition of class. Each new work pursuit, however, reveals a startling similar answer to the questi...
apartment or services, they end up on the streets living on wages equivalent to five or six dollars per hour. As if that is not ha...
there are few who are literally starving to death--there is AFDC, shelters, charities--there are two classes in society which are ...
anyone would offer her. She claimed to be an inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce (Clayton, 2002). What ensues is ...
text is a virtual diary of her experiences and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to t...
routinely refuse to raise the minimum wage, allowing business to get away with its perpetual whine that if they increase their wor...
could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...
Effective community nursing demands a familiarity with the culture, subculture, and/or socioeconomic group being attended....
In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...
addresses in her book, which also deals with the plight of the working poor. Like Ehrenreich, Shulman argues against American soci...
a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...
until the womens liberation movement of the 1960s. As women focused on greater political, social, and economic equality, however,...
In eight pages this paper evaluates the writings contained within Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road To Equality Sorry Sisters This i...
growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...
in many workplaces, especially those that involve continuous process manufacturing, or factories doing meat and poultry packaging ...
A book review of Nickel Mountain by John Gardner is presented in six pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....
the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...
In 5 pages, this paper focuses on a popular middle school textbook's exploration of the Great Depression's economic crisis and the...
logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...
writers point of view; as straightforward as this concept might appear, the author duly notes how there are myriad variables that ...
This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...
The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...
This eight page paper reviews the book by Barbara Hanawalt. The focus is human interaction in English medieval times. Primary so...
womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...
cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...
industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...