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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'"
She lives near Key West, Florida.
- 纪实
- 美国
- 社会学
- Poverty
- 贫穷
- 小说
- USA
- Sociology
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors.
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.
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评分在中国，薪水多少算低，我不知道。因为仿佛自己从未拿过底薪（只有换工作停发薪水的时候）。但是我还是和那些低薪者共事过。大学毕业找工作，去麦当劳应聘储备经理，曾经和服务员一起劳动过三日。培训我的员工是个老员工，但也是服务员，是个中年妇女。因为带我一起做事，所以...
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评分书就是书名所说的，我在底层的生活。 “我”， 芭芭拉，美国畅销书作者，生活水平属于上游20%的人。有天在一个颇为奢华的法式乡村风饭店跟《哈泼》杂志的编辑讨论未来可以替他们写什么文章，当话题转到贫穷时，说了一句“实在应该有人去做一些老式的新闻调查工作，就是自己实...
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评分The first thing I discovered is that no job, no mater how lowly, is truly 'unskilled'. Most of them do needs concentration. Only here every bite must be paid for ,one way or another ,in human discomfort. The face of low-paid society is that 'you give and you give'.
评分一小时八美金的工资，第一周的工资往往要延后发，这样的现状让餐厅服务员、家政清洁工、超市服务人员等辛勤付出的劳动者们根本无法攒齐租房所需的押金，从而只能住在价格更高但无需押金的廉价旅馆，而这让存钱更无可能。政府救助部门的不力，公共交通的匮乏，医疗费用的高昂，让这些底层的民众即使拼尽全力仍然无从摆脱贫困的陷阱。作者通过亲身经历展现了劳动经济学教科书和论文中见不到的市场摩擦和失效，也让转变了读者对穷人“懒散”“不思进取”的偏见得以纠正。这是一部人文关怀的温情和现实逻辑的残酷冰冷相碰撞的书，发人深省。
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