Nickel And Dimed

In Barbara Ehrenreich's nonfiction bestseller, Nickel and Dimed, she decides the best way to get a quality article is to live in her writing. She travels to Florida, Maine, and Minnesota to experience life as a low wage worker. Shr finds that, when conversing with coworkers who have lives of less luxury, there isn't much difference in conversation topics. The first jobs that Barbara worked she was only able to handle for a few weeks due to the physical demand on them. At the end of each job, she usually tells a few other workers that she is actually only working for the prupose of writing this; to her surprise they never seemed a bit shocked at the news and were caught up in their own low wage situations.