Nickel And Dimed Assessment Flashcards
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich is the author of this work. She attempts to find out if single mothers could make ends meet with low-wage jobs and no Welfare assistance.
Lewis Lapham
Lapham is the editor of Harper’s, with whom Ehrenreich develops the idea for her investigation.
Gail
Gail is the “middle-aged wiry waitress” from the Hearthside; she is responsible for training Ehrenreich.
Billy
Billy is a cook at the Hearthside. He has a temper and is frequently mean to the female servers.
Lionel
Lionel is the Haitian busboy at the Hearthside.
Timmy
Timmy is the fourteen-year-old white busboy at the Hearthside.
Joan
Joan is the “svelte fortyish hostess” at the Hearthside.
Phillip
Phillip is a manager at the Hearthside.
Stu
Stu is a cook at the Hearthside.
Joy
Joy is “a plump, blowsy woman in her early thirties”; she is a manager at Jerry’s.
B.J.
B.J. is the other manager at Jerry’s. She is mean and disliked by the employees.
Nina
Nina is “a tattooed twenty-something” waitress at Jerry’s.
Ellen
Ellen is a waitress who once managed a restaurant in Massachusetts but will not try to manage at Jerry’s because she does not like ordering people around.
Lucy
Lucy is in her fifties and easygoing. She is a waitress at Jerry’s.
George
George is a nineteen-year-old Czech dishwasher at Jerry’s who has been in the country for only a week when Ehrenreich meets him.
Millie
Millie is the housekeeping manager.
Carlotta
Carlotta is a “middle-aged African American woman” who trains Ehrenreich in housekeeping.
Linda
Linda is Ehrenreich’s supervisor at the nursing home in Maine. She is “a kindly-looking woman of about thirty.”
Pete
Pete is one of the cooks at the nursing home. He quickly befriends Ehrenreich, taking cigarette breaks with her in his car. Ted Ted is Ehrenreich’s boss at Merry Maids; he owns the franchise where Ehrenreich is employed.
Tammy
Tammy is the office manager at Merry Maids.
Liza
Liza is the leader of the one of the teams Ehrenreich cleans with while working at Merry Maids.
Rosalie
Rosalie is a fellow “maid.” She is fresh from high school, and Ehrenreich pesters her about eating healthy food.
Pauline
Pauline is another Merry Maids employee. She owns her own home, but sleeps on the couch because her grown children and grandchildren live with her and fill up the bedrooms.
Maddy
Maddy, who works for Merry Maids, is “a single mom of maybe twenty-seven or so”; she has difficulties with child care.
