Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America | Kya Ogyn
In the following essay, Ogyn offers some possible insight into the author's intent in writing this book.
Kya Ogyn
In the following essay, Ogyn offers some possible insight into the author's intent in writing this book.
I think the actual purpose of Ehrenreich's experiment becomes clear when identifying the intended audience. What we have is a successful, affluent writer addressing members of her own class. Her intent is to tell people who have never experienced it something of what it is like to work at jobs that do not pay enough to live on. Even more importantly, her intent is to say that her experience "is the best-case scenario: a person with every...
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