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Reader reviewed by Eric Benson

I would definitely like to see everyone in Beverly Hills read this book! This bestseller is about what it feels like to be trapped in the hole of low-wage working. Barbara Ehrenreich, the author, conducts a famous experiment. Although she has previously earned a Doctorate degree, she sets out to a new social world pretending she has no education. She gets jobs such as a Wal-Mart attendant, waitress, and a maid for a cleaning service. This book is eye-opening to people who actually do not know what it feels like to have a low-wage job. People with these kinds of jobs are maltreated in so many ways, and it is wrong. She not only exposes you to what a low-wage job is like, she also exposes you to the life outside of the workplace too. She accurately described how hard it was to find a place to live and what she could eat. Barbara Ehrenreich did an excellent job taking notes and describing every little detail of what that type of life is like. The book is great because it is so honest, she restated the exact language directed to he by co-workers. There is not one sentence in this book that I would ever want to change. The book will also never get boring because every so often Barbara will completely change the setting to a whole different place in the country. This book is a good tool for determination too. It will make you want to work hard and always be considerate to others. That is why I especially recommend this book to high school students, by reading this book it would probably make most kids actually think ahead and try hard. You may think you have a hard life, but by reading about people who actually do not even have a home, it will make you feel like royalty.