Barbara Ehrenreich is an American writer and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. Ehrenreich is perhaps best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. A memoir of Ehrenreich's three-month experiment surviving on minimum wage as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk, it was described by Newsweek magazine as "jarring" and "full of riveting grit",and by The New Yorker as an "exposé" putting "human flesh on the bones of such abstractions as 'living wage' and 'affordable housing'"
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States.
The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000. The book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books. An earlier version appeared as an article in the January 1999 issue of Harper's magazine. Ehrenreich later wrote a companion book, Bait and Switch (published September 2005), which discusses her attempt to find a white-collar job.
The book Nickel and Dimed is a captivating piece of journalism in which Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover in three cities to discover what life is like for single women who earn minimum wage,namely,in the low-wage workforce. Ehrenreich worked as a waitre...
评分 评分看到豆瓣上的那些吐槽,怀疑真的读了这本书吗? 让人拙计啊。 这说的主要是一个中产女作家,为了体验blue collar人民的生活,分别跑去了美国的三个地方,做角色体验:没有住所的单身母亲。 她必须找到工作,最低工资 必须找到住的地方,这个有点复杂,因为她会付更多的钱住MOTE...
评分先得说一句,这本书不知道是否是翻译的原因,言语不够流畅,而作者的原文,絮絮叨叨的废话也太多,但是这本书我依然推荐大家一读。 美国专栏作家芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克在1998年,为了体验底层美国人民的生活,选择了六个地方,在不同的城市去打工。 为了确保她能真实体验当地底层...
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前几章看的中文,后来国内还没出译文版看了两章英文版(在缅因当清洁工前),剩下的部分拖到前两年去听作者讲座时都没看完。。。直到这几天开长途才听完。书很好,将近二十年前的对美国底层人民的人类学观察。但不推荐audible,声音单调得让人昏昏欲睡,不是旅途良伴。
评分我觉得是同时因为工资低和不知道经营生活才会过得那么凄惨。
评分写得太condescending。虽然很大程度上可以理解,以作者的背景,所看所感肯定不是从普通working poor的角度。如果是我去体验,估计想法看法也是一样的。但可以写得更好一点。有些时候感觉她要表达的是好的意思,但听起来却有相反的undertone。
评分写得太condescending。虽然很大程度上可以理解,以作者的背景,所看所感肯定不是从普通working poor的角度。如果是我去体验,估计想法看法也是一样的。但可以写得更好一点。有些时候感觉她要表达的是好的意思,但听起来却有相反的undertone。
评分An insight into the actual living conditions and ways to improve.
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