The first chapter of Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Serving in Florida” presents the social and economic challenges that unskilled laborers faced in the U.S. Barbara’s research in Florida was a clear picture of how hard and difficult is to live with low wages, and she refers how the lives of each class of society differs from each other.
Ehrenreich compares her life when she worked and lived as middle class person to the life as a poor class in the society. The book Nickel and Dimed demonstrates fairly conflict theory (inspired by Marx and Weber). Conflict theory is clearly demonstrated social order based on inequality, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Ehrenreich clearly shows people I her book that within society there are certainly different levels, however,
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These inequalities effects so many people in society both wealthy and people live in poverty. In America low wage workers have some options like little education and having transportations issue. These people in society have very complex issues and it is difficult they change the situation. These people have low self-esteem they learned in every job.
These low self-esteem comes from always being accused of breaking rules, being yelled by their supervisor, and always treated like a small child. In America corporates are looking to lower cost for their profits and that is the reason of outsourcing their business. Corporates are not guaranteeing people for their living cost they hire them with the wages that is in their budget. To corporates people don’t