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[blue_lotus13]

After reading the section in Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" on maids, I will never hire a cleaning service. The whole thing just disgusted me.

Who else has read that book?

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I am crabby and nauseated today, for no real reason. I wish I could curl up in bed with my dog, and some books.

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[alaskadanielle.livejournal.com]

I read that book; I was more disappointed with the idea that this upper-class woman would feign to know what it was to be destitute after spending a mere three months working.

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[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

I don't think she really claims to know what it's like. She makes several mentions during the book about this.

However, I may be biased- I'm trained as a journalist and am fascinated by undercover reporting. I loved Steinem's essay about being a bunny, and one of my favourite profs at journalism school went undercover in a stocking factory to see what immigrant workers went through.

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[alaskadanielle.livejournal.com]

You are correct; she does make mentions of her not knowing what it's really like to be destitute. I guess what I'm referring to is the idea that for those of us who have actually eaten mayonaisse sandwiches, some of her revelations were a bit anti-climactic. (grin)

And I love undercover journalism too! What was your journalism professor able to suss out of his stint at the stocking factory?

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[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

She basically just found out lots of ways that immigrants were exploited. She did this during the 1970s, in Montreal. I think the research won some awards. She was interested in a lot of things that I'm interested in like immigrants, and ethnic relations.