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.
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...
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...
評分 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...
SOCL102課無聊的Textbook, 太過於淺顯易懂而且沒有深入思考瞭,好吧最後的Evaluation部分還可以,但這種體驗生活的Field Trip方式對我而言實在是既沒有社會學調查的嚴謹,也沒有理論思想的深刻,隻能是作傢的無聊小隨筆? Chris
评分我覺得是同時因為工資低和不知道經營生活纔會過得那麼淒慘。
评分篇幅可以減少到一章。。。
评分前幾章看的中文,後來國內還沒齣譯文版看瞭兩章英文版(在緬因當清潔工前),剩下的部分拖到前兩年去聽作者講座時都沒看完。。。直到這幾天開長途纔聽完。書很好,將近二十年前的對美國底層人民的人類學觀察。但不推薦audible,聲音單調得讓人昏昏欲睡,不是旅途良伴。
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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