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'"
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.
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...
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...
評分大一上专业课的时候,有位讲师貌似简略提起过这本书,所以在网上碰巧遇到时就下单购买了。具体是不是这本书我也不是很清楚,但即使不是,内容也是相似的,起码讨论的话题有交叠。 读书最忌囫囵吞枣,而合上书本以后,我陷入思考,不想“浪费”,于是写下此文记录自己不成熟的看...
通勤時間聽完。
评分interesting to read
评分看到好多人打低分,認為作者的分析不夠深刻。我反倒感覺有些作品本身的使命就不是解釋問題的全部,而是將問題提齣來為進一步的討論奠定空間。此外,有時候會把評價學術作品和通俗作品的標準搞亂混。從這個角度看,我感覺這書還好啊~
评分An insight into the actual living conditions and ways to improve.
评分文筆太絮叨,聽瞭2/3就不想再聽瞭,同樣是描寫底層生活,奧威爾的更值得一看
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