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Barbara Ehrenreich and Learning from Men

great writer who not only talks the talk but walks the walk. She is the author of Nickel and Dimed, about surviving on minimum wag...

'Making Sense of La Difference' by Barbara Ehrenreich

writers point of view; as straightforward as this concept might appear, the author duly notes how there are myriad variables that ...

Summary and Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed

for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...

'Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America' by Barbara Ehrenreich

handle on that ever elusive definition of class. Each new work pursuit, however, reveals a startling similar answer to the questi...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

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 ...

Evaluation of Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road to Equality

In eight pages this paper evaluates the writings contained within Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road To Equality Sorry Sisters This i...

Welfare Reform Issues and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...

Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Michael Zweig's Working Class Majority

and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" Ehrenreich takes on a new identity to secure work in the blue collar workforce fulfilli...

Critique of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

text is a virtual diary of her experiences and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to t...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

The Literature as a Lesson in Community Health Care

Effective community nursing demands a familiarity with the culture, subculture, and/or socioeconomic group being attended....

Reviewing Feminism's Evolutionary Nature

until the womens liberation movement of the 1960s. As women focused on greater political, social, and economic equality, however,...

Ehrenreich's Attitude in "Nickel and Dimed"

routinely refuse to raise the minimum wage, allowing business to get away with its perpetual whine that if they increase their wor...

David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

Working Poor According to Beth Shulman and Barbara Ehrenreich

addresses in her book, which also deals with the plight of the working poor. Like Ehrenreich, Shulman argues against American soci...

Workplace Freedom of Speech

logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...

The Necessity for Labor Unions and Women's Place in Them

a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...

Is America Still America the Beautiful

This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

Analyzing Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

anyone would offer her. She claimed to be an inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce (Clayton, 2002). What ensues is ...

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

there are few who are literally starving to death--there is AFDC, shelters, charities--there are two classes in society which are ...

Classical Sociology and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

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...

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Referring to Void Where Prohibited by Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard

in many workplaces, especially those that involve continuous process manufacturing, or factories doing meat and poultry packaging ...

Learning Environment Observation

activity to another through verbal communication, but physical assistance was sometimes provided for children who had difficulty w...

COMPARISONS BETWEEN IBM AND LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

workforce so the workforce can be flexible enough to compete in a highly competitive market. In addition to developing employees, ...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Book Review of Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

In five pages this book review considers the Ogala Sioux holy man's story and the lessons readers can learn from it. One source i...

Language Differences between Men and Women

The writer argues that society assigns certain acceptable roles to men and women, and that much societal behavior is learned. The ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Conflicts

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...