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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.
- 纪实
- 美国
- 社会学
- Poverty
- 贫穷
- 小说
- 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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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...
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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...
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评分先得说一句，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...
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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." 这本书的开头告诉我们一个真理“no zuo no die, you zuo you die”XDDD。具体的内容还在研读中
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评分在飞机上看书时，旁边的美国大妈跟我说虽然距离这本书第一次出版已经几十年了，但是书里面描写的美国蓝领们的生活不仅没有改善，反而变得更差。现在很期待下学年老师要怎么来讨论这“物价飞涨但是工资不变”的现象。
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'.
评分在飞机上看书时，旁边的美国大妈跟我说虽然距离这本书第一次出版已经几十年了，但是书里面描写的美国蓝领们的生活不仅没有改善，反而变得更差。现在很期待下学年老师要怎么来讨论这“物价飞涨但是工资不变”的现象。
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