What commonalities is she starting to notice about minimum wage jobs and workers?

America may be a caste-free society in theory, but the maids are the true untouchables of the country’s hierarchy: “Even convenience store clerks, who are $6-an-hour gals themselves, seem to look down on us,” Ehrenreich concludes.

Whether we speak of The Maids or Woodcrest or Hearthside or Jerry’s, however, the low-wage workplace in general seems to exert a soul-crushing effect. “If you hump away at menial jobs 360-plus days a year, does some kind of repetitive injury of the spirit set in? Please check this GradeSaver link out: