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A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.
This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up.
Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, she makes one of America’s biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class.
For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.
著者簡介
Amy Goldstein has been a staff writer for thirty years at The Washington Post, where much of her work has focused on social policy. Among her awards, she shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She has been a fellow at Harvard University at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Janesville: An American Story is her first book. She lives in Washington, DC.
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與本書主題無關的一點感想：打1.5份螺絲釘藍領工就敢養娃養車養樓（娃和車還是復數的），每個禮拜groceries花200刀，然後銀行賬戶上四捨五入等於沒錢，前腳失業後腳就要取養老金續命。啊神奇的美國人民！真的不能理解
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评分與國內早期工業城市（三綫等）的經曆其實也挺相似。政治與經濟。
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评分與本書主題無關的一點感想：打1.5份螺絲釘藍領工就敢養娃養車養樓（娃和車還是復數的），每個禮拜groceries花200刀，然後銀行賬戶上四捨五入等於沒錢，前腳失業後腳就要取養老金續命。啊神奇的美國人民！真的不能理解
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