![]() ![]() ![]() The point was not so much to become poor as to get a sense of the spectrum of low-wage work that existed-from waitressing to maid work, from feeding the elderly to prowling the aisles of Wal-Mart. Except, of course, Ehrenreich set limits and rules for herself, held onto a car and an ATM card for emergencies, and hopped from locale to locale when the going got tough. It was the "old-fashioned kind of journalism" as she put it, true undercover reportage. Her familial roots may have been decidedly blue-collar, but she was now anything but.Įhrenreich's journey, as chronicled in her book, immediately caught attention. Ehrenreich was comfortably ensconced in the upper-middle-class world of high-brow writing. As she relates in her introduction to the book, the idea of trying out low-wage work in the interest of investigative reportage came up during a lunch with the editor of Harper’s. Barbara Ehrenreich was already a highly respected figure in the world of journalism before she penned Nickel and Dimed. ![]()
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