![]() ![]() Through her detailed description, the readers are able to see how physically demanding a low wage workers’ job is – some might even say physically damaging. Similarly, Marianne’s boyfriend lost his job as a roofer because he missed so much time after getting a cut on his foot for which he couldn’t afford the prescribed antibiotic.” So she spends $9 a pop for pills to control the migraines she wouldn’t have, she insists, if her estrogen supplements were covered. She is supposed to be on the company health plan by now, but they claim to have lost her application form and to be beginning the paperwork all over again. Gail, for example, was doing fine, health-wise anyway, until she ran out of money for estrogen pills. You go without routine care or prescription drugs and end up paying the price. If you have no money for health insurance. Ehrenreich states, “There are no secret economies that nourish the poor. Through her chronicled description, the readers can see the significant struggles a low wage worker faces, as well as how it can affect them in the long run. Among them was going undercover she wanted to understand how low waged, and non-skilled workers were able to make it work while jumping through all the other obstacles thrown at them. Ehrenreich utilizes a variety of different techniques, such as writing in first person and providing statistics to prove her argument. ![]()
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