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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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以前说过的那个调查，富人们会说很多穷人之所以穷是因为他们不努力。知道几个人亲自去试。。还记得说第一天清洁大楼因为速度太慢，垃圾没赶上垃圾车，熟练了一阵子以后勉强能按时下班。。 下班后躺在破烂的临时住所里，累成狗了突然体会到穷人们光是维持生活都精疲力竭了，体力...
評分记得以前有次晚上打的，和司机聊天，司机挺年轻，开车不少年了，他看上去很疲累，说自己白天睡觉，晚上交班，作息和一般人相反，我问他晚上可以拉到活吗，他说可以，尤其是深夜酒吧旁边总有不少人。他说做司机很辛苦，自己也不想做了，但是没有办法，太累，没有时间和精力去学...
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評分以前说过的那个调查，富人们会说很多穷人之所以穷是因为他们不努力。知道几个人亲自去试。。还记得说第一天清洁大楼因为速度太慢，垃圾没赶上垃圾车，熟练了一阵子以后勉强能按时下班。。 下班后躺在破烂的临时住所里，累成狗了突然体会到穷人们光是维持生活都精疲力竭了，体力...
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在飛機上看書時，旁邊的美國大媽跟我說雖然距離這本書第一次齣版已經幾十年瞭，但是書裏麵描寫的美國藍領們的生活不僅沒有改善，反而變得更差。現在很期待下學年老師要怎麼來討論這“物價飛漲但是工資不變”的現象。
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
评分在飛機上看書時，旁邊的美國大媽跟我說雖然距離這本書第一次齣版已經幾十年瞭，但是書裏麵描寫的美國藍領們的生活不僅沒有改善，反而變得更差。現在很期待下學年老師要怎麼來討論這“物價飛漲但是工資不變”的現象。
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