Discussion questions:
1- Do you have second thoughts about low-wage service work as “unskilled?
2- Did you get the impression that according to Ehrenreich her fellow workers are “ripe for revolution or at least to fight for a union?
3. Feelings of loneliness is a private phenomenon. How can it be a study in sociology?
4. The issue of loneliness, I can imagine, has some special significance of military personnel and their spouses. Please comment.