Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, is a passionate writer. According to her personal website, she was born in Butte, Montana in 1941 to a family that were blue-collar workers. Her father was a miner and through tough work he went to get his degree from Butte School of Mines. From then on, Ehrenreich and her family traveled to various locations in her childhood. When she was in her mid-teens her family reached a middle class status and she was able to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon. That’s where she studied chemistry, but then decided to study physics instead. Ehrenreich made it to grad school at Rockefeller University. There were a couple of times when she switched from various majors, but in the end, she ended up in molecular biology and she received her Ph. D. In 1970, with the birth of her first child, she suffered a political as well as a personal transformation. In the sense when she questioned the prenatal care that she received from the hospital clinic that she was in. Ehrenreich, then became herself involved with the “Women’s health movement”, where woman can have …show more content…
It surprised me since I assumed that she wanted to be a writer since the beginning. It was a wonderful experience reading a book about the working class nowadays, for the reason that not many people verve into the field and experience what it was like to be a blue-collar worker in today’s society. Even though she had a degree and her life was all ready on track, she decided to write a book concerning the working class and understand what it’s like going into the field for herself and toughing it out to understand what it feels like to a blue-collar worker. When I read about what motivated the author to be the way she is, I now understand why she wanted to do the research on the book Nickel and Dimed. She may have wanted to feel what it feels like to earn a little amount of money for backbreaking