She figured that with a $7-an-hour job, and a place to rent costing no more than $500 a month, she would have $400 to $500 a month remaining to spend for food and gas. In fact, millions of Americans do it every day, and with a lot less fanfare and dithering.''Įhrenreich's first stop was her hometown of Key West. Almost anyone could do what I did - look for jobs, work those jobs, try to make ends meet. ''So,'' she writes, ''this is not a story of some death-defying She looked for the best-paying unskilled job she could get, and hoped to earn enough money at it to pay her rent for a second month. Presenting herself as an unskilled worker, a homemaker needing to earn a living after divorce, she entered the low end of the labor market and spent one month in each of three different sections of the country. Women (most with children) soon to be pushed off the rolls and into the labor market make their way on wages of $6 or $7 an hour - an amount that it was universally agreed was not a living wage?Įhrenreich, who has a dozen books behind her dealing with the social and political hallmarks of our economic system, has here, with ''Nickel and Dimed,'' followed in an honored journalistic tradition and written a valuable and illuminatingīook.
N the good times of 1998, with the clock on welfare benefits running out, Barbara Ehrenreich had a question: How, she wondered, would the four million Audio: An Interview With Barbara Ehrenreich.Barbara Ehrenreich travels across America to learn how people live on a minimum wage.
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