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Accustomed to the easygoing life of the feature-writer, Nelson is reassigned with disastrous results to the Metropolitan Desk when the Post Magazine folds. She considers this assignment a banishment to professional purgatory, since it is staffed primarily with minorities...
...Nelson renders in detail the texture of life at a news room, especially the factional warring which dominates the Post. Deep bias can be detected in much of her analysis however, and she often speculates on others' motives without documentation...
Most revealing is Nelson's stark depiction of the huge disparity between her pre-Post free-wheeling lifestyle and the staid corporate life which replaced it. She tries to present this as a titanic struggle between principles and filthy lucre. In reality, it just shows that she fails to understand the basic tenets of capitalism as practiced in the United States...
...book is about more than her professional life. Nelson's devotion to her daughter is absolutely unquestionable. Nelson also explores her deep emotions toward her family and her trouble relating to her mother...
Ultimately, Nelson decides that she is too unhappy with the Post's status quo. Unable to create change, she quits, returning to what she considers a less-stressful lifestyle. With such an outcome Volunteer Slavery reads as a cautionary tale about the demands of life in the nation's capital...