SOC 525 Chapter Notes - Chapter Articles : Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Physical Therapy, Consumerism
18 Nov 2016
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Media and images of inequality readings, week seven. Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in america by ehrenreich (1999) In 1998 it took an average of an hourly wage of . 89 to afford a one-bedroom apartment; therefore, low wage work is not a solution to poverty or to homelessness. Woman saying that housekeeping would be the best low-wage job, as it is what she has been doing her entire life part time within the home. Posters of what it means to look professional (mostly white and permed) Want ads are (cid:374)ot a (cid:396)elia(cid:271)le (cid:373)easu(cid:396)e of a(cid:448)aila(cid:271)le jo(cid:271)s (cid:271)ut (cid:396)athe(cid:396) e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)e(cid:396)s" i(cid:374)su(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e policy against relentless turnover. Housing seems to be the main source of disruption in low-wage workers lives; even a basic necessity is hard to obtain on these wages, especially if the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t provide stable benefits, leading most to find a second job.
