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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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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." 這本書的開頭告訴我們一個真理“no zuo no die, you zuo you die”XDDD。具體的內容還在研讀中
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." 這本書的開頭告訴我們一個真理“no zuo no die, you zuo you die”XDDD。具體的內容還在研讀中
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