- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
As Barbara looks back over what her experience as part of the working poor has taught her, she first draws several conclusions on the personal level before going on to make broader, more sociological claims. Here she echoes something that she had mentioned at the beginning of the book, when friends had asked if people could "tell" that Barbara was undercover. That attitude presumes, she had claimed, that the relatively educated and wealthy are smarter and more clever than others, mapping onto the distinction often made between "skilled" and "unskilled" labor.
Barbara concludes from her time at the various low-paying…