![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First off, three rules: she was not allowed to fall back on skills derived from her usual work she must take the highest-paying job offered to her and do her best to hold it she must accept the cheapest housing she could find. For the remainder of her introductory chapter, Ehrenreich details the parameters she set for her endeavor. She was a long way from the days of radical journalism, and her own extended family had enough brushes with and proximity to poverty that doing what she did for a living-sitting at a desk and writing-seemed not just a privilege “but a duty”-something she “owed to all those people who’d had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.”Įhrenreich did of course overcome her concern, and the book is the chronicle of her efforts. ![]() “The idea that led to this book arose,” Ehrenreich begins by writing, “in comparatively sumptuous circumstances.” She then describes a $30 lunch at a French restaurant with Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper’s, who, when Ehrenreich casually mentions that someone ought to investigate the consequences of welfare reform by going out and trying the low-wage workplace “for themselves”, jumps on the idea and beckons Ehrenreich to take the dive.Įhrenreich goes on to explain that the notion seemed at first crazy to her. ![]()
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