Serving in Florida

In Barbara Ehrenreich's "Serving In Florida", she takes us through a "scientific experiment" to learn a little more about living a working-class life. She first takes on one job as a waitress, then adds another so she can pay her bills. She begins to find herself entrenched in the lifestyle and even the attitude of the working-class person.
Ehrenreich's experience is very telling, and very entertaining. She could have learned of working-class life through study and reading. She could have communicated the differences from her "real" life to her working-class life through statistics and numbers. However, by living to tell the tale, she adds a genuine touch to her story that could only be gained from actually living the life of the working-class.
By the end of the piece the reader is surely convinced that if you have options that will lead you away from the working-class world, take them. She paints a very depressing reality of what it takes to make ends meet, if you are part of this working-class. She is convincing and entertaining, and does a great job of getting her point across.