Annotated Bibliography |
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| 1) Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickle and Dimed. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001. | Ehrenreich dives in and shows us first hand that it is near impossible to live comfortably on a low wage job. Through first hand experience as well as stories of people she worked with, she shows readers that it is almost necessary to work two low wage jobs to be able to make ends meet. However, Ehrenreich does put limitations on how legitimate her account can be when she sets up back up plans for herself so she will not get into anything too serious (introduction). | |
| 2) Shipler, David K. The Working Poor. New York: Vintage Books, 2004. | Unlike Ehrenreich, Shipler decides to take an investigative view on how people deal with living low wage lives. By using stories to help express his points and views, Shipler takes a deeper look into low wage life and how people live it from day to day. He also takes a look into how financial workers deal with their interactions with people living on low wage incomes. | |
| 3) Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. | Like Shipler, Schlosser uses an investigative point of view and takes a long look into the lives of people who work in the fast food industry. He looks into how difficult it is to work behind the counter at the top fast food restaurants and uses stories like the one about Elisa Zamot, the 15 year old who works at McDonald’s (67). | |
4) Hoschild, Arlie. The Nanny Chain.Found here. |
This gives us a look into the lives of “global nannies”—live in nannies that leave their own children to take care of the children of others. These women are paid very low wages, and most of their wages go to take care of their children who live in a separate country. The act of working in a different country to be able to pay for something in your home country is called a “global chain”, and these have currently been on the rise in our country. | |
| 5) Sen, Rinku. The Welfare Nanny Diaries. Found here. | This nanny is a different type of nanny than the global nannies. A welfare nanny is a woman that nannies for other women in her own socioeconomic status. While caring for other women’s children, these nannies have to take care of their own children as well as work other jobs just so they can keep roofs over their own heads as well as their children’s. They get paid $1.10-6 an hour and struggle to make ends meet every day. | |
| 6) Williams, Kerryn. Hundreds of Childcare workers face the axe. Found here. | Childcare workers aren’t facing problems only in the United States. As shown by this article, childcare workers all over the world have been facing problems in the past few years with job availability. This only goes to show that problems with childcare workers are not only apparent in America, but internationally as well. | |
7) Arreola, Veronica. Feminism and Caregiving. Found here. |
Lack of recognition for all the hard work they do has lead women to wonder if what they are doing is even worth it. Some women say that care giving is work that was done by women generations ago, and others still hold on to the stereotype that childcare is women’s work and not a man’s job.
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