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- 纪实
- 美国
- 社会学
- Poverty
- 贫穷
- 小说
- USA
- Sociology
- 非虚构
- 社会批判
- 劳动权益
- 贫困研究
- 美国社会
- 现实主义
- 职场观察
- 经济不平等
- 个人经历
- 基层工作
具体描述
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.
作者简介
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.
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记得以前有次晚上打的，和司机聊天，司机挺年轻，开车不少年了，他看上去很疲累，说自己白天睡觉，晚上交班，作息和一般人相反，我问他晚上可以拉到活吗，他说可以，尤其是深夜酒吧旁边总有不少人。他说做司机很辛苦，自己也不想做了，但是没有办法，太累，没有时间和精力去学...
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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...
评分评论來自健仔/香港独立媒体) 「在社會如此富足豐裕的時刻，即便有著種族、教育、健康及動機所帶來的一切優勢，一個人在經濟的最底層仍然必須掙扎求生。」 《我在底層的生活》的作者—芭芭拉．艾倫瑞克—是一位美國白人女性，過了六十歲的她是一位相當活躍的女性主義者。作者...
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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。
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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