Ehrenreich fails to address the real underlying causes

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	• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich Holt Paperbacks, 2002 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 1080 reviews view larger image
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Ehrenreich fails to address the real underlying causes

I have the book, and while it's informative, Ehrenreich fails to reveal why wages are so low.

Globalization is a huge factor. Jobs are being outsourced to countries such as China and India.

The feminist movement is a REALLY huge factor, hand in hand with the sexual revolution. These have contributed to more women (more people) in the job pool. Instead of having a family where Dad works and Mom takes care of the children, the parents are divorced, both parents have jobs--or the mother is unmarried and must work. Plus women buy into the lie that a woman is worthless unless she's out there actually making money.

Illegal immigration depresses wages as well. My dad made over $20 an hour as a meatcutter--in the sixties. Now that same job pays less than $10 from what I'm hearing. We have illegal immigrants taking American jobs and Americans on welfare. Something is not right with that picture.

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High Class Cop Out

Barbara Ehrenreich's books starts with a wonderful premise, an attempt to understand how (and if) a person can live on and feed his/her family on minimum wage. She tells a good story but gets wrapped up in statistics and indignation, and ultimately, she knows that she can always go back to her upper crust life, and is a pretender to the throne of poverty and suffering. And in fact in her last stint as a working slob, she leaves the scene early, content in the fact that she may or may not have started a revolution in one Wal Mart in America. I don't buy her dedication to the cause, she always had a way out.

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Fast food doesn't conserve your money!

Ehrenreich certainly burnt up a lot of money at fast food franchises! Who says that this is a fair example of how individuals at poverty level operate? If the author had fixed just one pot of soup a week and eaten it for two or three meals, her spending would not have been so extreme. Food is fairly inflation-proof; fast-food restaurants are not.

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