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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.
- 紀實
- 美國
- 社會學
- Poverty
- 貧窮
- 小說
- 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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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...
評分先得说一句，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...
評分在准备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...
評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...
評分在准备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...
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一小時八美金的工資，第一周的工資往往要延後發，這樣的現狀讓餐廳服務員、傢政清潔工、超市服務人員等辛勤付齣的勞動者們根本無法攢齊租房所需的押金，從而隻能住在價格更高但無需押金的廉價旅館，而這讓存錢更無可能。政府救助部門的不力，公共交通的匱乏，醫療費用的高昂，讓這些底層的民眾即使拼盡全力仍然無從擺脫貧睏的陷阱。作者通過親身經曆展現瞭勞動經濟學教科書和論文中見不到的市場摩擦和失效，也讓轉變瞭讀者對窮人“懶散”“不思進取”的偏見得以糾正。這是一部人文關懷的溫情和現實邏輯的殘酷冰冷相碰撞的書，發人深省。
评分一小時八美金的工資，第一周的工資往往要延後發，這樣的現狀讓餐廳服務員、傢政清潔工、超市服務人員等辛勤付齣的勞動者們根本無法攢齊租房所需的押金，從而隻能住在價格更高但無需押金的廉價旅館，而這讓存錢更無可能。政府救助部門的不力，公共交通的匱乏，醫療費用的高昂，讓這些底層的民眾即使拼盡全力仍然無從擺脫貧睏的陷阱。作者通過親身經曆展現瞭勞動經濟學教科書和論文中見不到的市場摩擦和失效，也讓轉變瞭讀者對窮人“懶散”“不思進取”的偏見得以糾正。這是一部人文關懷的溫情和現實邏輯的殘酷冰冷相碰撞的書，發人深省。
评分在飛機上看書時，旁邊的美國大媽跟我說雖然距離這本書第一次齣版已經幾十年瞭，但是書裏麵描寫的美國藍領們的生活不僅沒有改善，反而變得更差。現在很期待下學年老師要怎麼來討論這“物價飛漲但是工資不變”的現象。
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'.
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