Have you or has anyone you know been ever held a low-wage Job (precarious work)? If so, would you describe and explain what type of work and benefits, pay and disadvantages. How hard that you worked and paid? How much of a chance do most people with jobs, for example at Wendy’s or Wal-Mart, have to enroll to college and to work toward a different career? How can people find a strategy for avoiding low-wage (precarious) jobs? In the film, as Barbara Ehrenreich claims that most-well-off people in the US are dependent on low-wage workers. What does she mean by this?
For further Knowledge about precarious work please watch the videos and podcast (links in this module as well) and read scanned pages (you could also find under ” extra readings”)
NOTE: These extra short readings and videos are also highly recommended/helpful for discussion and assignments on following tabs in this Module.