Analysis Of Ted At The Maids By Barbara Ehrenreich

During her experience at living like a low income class, Barbara Ehrenreich faced situations that was challenging both physical and psychologically, she worked in differently and varied jobs, from a waitress, a nurse, a Wall-Mart sale, a maid at a hotel and even a housekeeper. In all her jobs she found herself unexperienced and challenged, even with her background and her knowledge.
Among her jobs and the people she met, she was presented in Maine to her boss
Ted at The Maids, where she worked as a housekeeper in a middle class neighborhood. She at first described Ted as a cartoon as she states “the only features sketched onto his pudgy face are brown buttonlike eyes and a tiny pug nose; his belly, encased in a polo shirt, overhangs the waistline of his shorts”, but gradually in the chapter, can be noticed the similarity on the way he treats his employees like a pimp, noticeably described when he affirms that he cares about `his girls` and during situations where Ehrenreich sees how Ted has power over her work colleagues, on the passages:“
She believes that their needs for his approval come from being usually remind of their jobs and that what they do, summarizes what they are, that happens because Ted is a supervisor in a cleaning service corporate and as any corporation, “Corporate decision makers… occupy economic position miles above that of the underpaid people whose labor they depend on”, she writes. Not only that, Ted being their boss, means his income and life are in a better status than his employees, giving him the false idea that his work