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Sequence of events

Barbara Ehrenreich decides that taking various jobs such as waitressing and housekeeping will help her to understand what it really is like being someone with a working-class lifestyle. Working two different waitressing jobs at once, then doing housekeeping and working at Jerry's definitely was more than she could handle. Going straight from one job to another with 10 minutes in between and commuting 45 minutes to Jerry's wasn't a quality of life she wanted to be living. Residing in a trailer park and only eating whenever managers couldn't see took a toll on her emotionally, physically and mentally. She talks about the stuggles she faces when trying to "plunge into poverty".

ethnic background

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Overworked, Underpaid

  • Czech dishwasher named George
  • They accuse George of taking something
  • Carlie, an elderly lady working with Barbra doing housekeeping infroms her that they(the managers) only care about you when something is stolen
  • Worked at Jerry's from 8:00- 2:00 and then went straight to Hearthside from 2:10-10:00
  • 10% tip average at Jerry's
  • Only makes $6.10 housekeeping
  • 19 rooms to clean from 9-whenever
  • Gets out at 3:30 from housekeeping to go work at Jerry's
  • Gets sat 4 tables at once

Terrible living conditions

  • The bathroom was so small that her knees would touch the wall when sitting on the toilet
  • Trailer #46 in Overseas Trailer Park is known for crack and crime
  • No break room in Jerry's
  • No toilet paper, soap, or paper towels all in bathroom at once
  • Everyone smokes at Jerry's

Engaging in the text

Write a paragraph about your worst job ever. How did your experience compare to that of Ehrenreichs? What, if anything, have you learned from that job?

Ehrenreich ordinarily lives much more comfortably than she did as a waitress, and of course she had an escape hatch from her experiment- she would not serve food or clean rooms forever and could have gone back to her usual life if necessary at any time. Explain the effect her status as a "tourist" in working-class culture has on you as a reader

Would you be willing to work a minimum wage job for hours on end to make ends meet?

Engaging in the text

Social class

What is the point of Ehrenreich's experiment ?

  • Everyone at Jerry's has a second job, and if they don't it's because they have a boyfriend.
  • She said it'll take her awhile to get back from buying her $49 pair of dockers required for Hearthside
  • George gets paid $5 an hour and whatever else he makes, his "agent" gets
  • A costumer comes into the kitchen to yell at them that he's been waiting 25 minutes for his food.

Engaging in the text

What do you think that she was hoping to learn by stepping down the economic ladder, and what can you learn as her reader?

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