图书标签: 纪实 美国 社会学 Poverty 贫穷 小说 USA Sociology
发表于2024-11-04
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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.
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.
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。
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But lapham got this crazy-looking half smile on his face and ended life as I knew it, for long stretches at least, with the single word "you." 这本书的开头告诉我们一个真理“no zuo no die, you zuo you die”XDDD。具体的内容还在研读中
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评分在飞机上看书时,旁边的美国大妈跟我说虽然距离这本书第一次出版已经几十年了,但是书里面描写的美国蓝领们的生活不仅没有改善,反而变得更差。现在很期待下学年老师要怎么来讨论这“物价飞涨但是工资不变”的现象。
在准备GT考试时,读了许多励志文章,作者都描写自己准备考试的不易最后终于通过的故事,看了太多,这都让我对自己产生了一种感动,一种我在受难但结果将会是值得的感动,升华到认为经历苦难是有价值的,只要你努力了,一定会获得回报。我甚至会假想自己在异国他乡遭遇许多不顺...
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...
评分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...
评分大一上专业课的时候,有位讲师貌似简略提起过这本书,所以在网上碰巧遇到时就下单购买了。具体是不是这本书我也不是很清楚,但即使不是,内容也是相似的,起码讨论的话题有交叠。 读书最忌囫囵吞枣,而合上书本以后,我陷入思考,不想“浪费”,于是写下此文记录自己不成熟的看...
评分Nickel and Dimed pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024