Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States.
The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000. The book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books. An earlier version appeared as an article in the January 1999 issue of Harper's magazine. Ehrenreich later wrote a companion book, Bait and Switch (published September 2005), which discusses her attempt to find a white-collar job.
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'"
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...
评分不同于电视情景喜剧和好莱坞电影中的美国,另一个美国是一个被其自身忽视的隐密大陆。很少见诸报道的关于美国梦的真相就是,这个国家也存在着分布广泛、不断增长和不可避免的贫穷。在这个国家中,那些做着基础工作的人们,只能拿到低于生存标准的薪资。 芭芭拉•艾伦瑞克潜...
评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...
评分最近两三年,中文网络世界发生了一个明显的话语变化:穷人的形象从整体相对正面或至少是得到同情,几乎180度地转向负面——穷人,包括贫困地区、底层阶级,越来越明显成为批判与嘲讽的对象。在一开始,这种转变还多为个案性的叙述与道德评价(比如讲述一个贫穷的亲戚如何想方设...
评分前阵知乎上曾讨论过“生活大爆炸”中Penny的收入能否真的让她过得比较滋润,当时有人引据各种美国的生活数据,证明她是可以过得还不错的。不久之后又看到这本亲历女服务员生活的书,才发现了阳光下的另一面。 《我在底层的生活》,也就是芭芭拉的《Nickel and Dimed》。在《社...
篇幅可以减少到一章。。。
评分看到好多人打低分,认为作者的分析不够深刻。我反倒感觉有些作品本身的使命就不是解释问题的全部,而是将问题提出来为进一步的讨论奠定空间。此外,有时候会把评价学术作品和通俗作品的标准搞乱混。从这个角度看,我感觉这书还好啊~
评分通勤時間聽完。
评分有时候就碰上这样突发奇想的人,也真没办法。实在够狠。
评分写得太condescending。虽然很大程度上可以理解,以作者的背景,所看所感肯定不是从普通working poor的角度。如果是我去体验,估计想法看法也是一样的。但可以写得更好一点。有些时候感觉她要表达的是好的意思,但听起来却有相反的undertone。
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