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发表于2024-11-05
Nickel and Dimed pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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'"
We are so used to social status we reside and hence lose the view of the whole picture. The rich does not understand the middle class. Middle class does not understand the working class. The working class does not understand the poor. It is so hard to move between the classes even if you try, try, and try.
評分寫得太condescending。雖然很大程度上可以理解,以作者的背景,所看所感肯定不是從普通working poor的角度。如果是我去體驗,估計想法看法也是一樣的。但可以寫得更好一點。有些時候感覺她要錶達的是好的意思,但聽起來卻有相反的undertone。
評分底層人民的生活展示
評分interesting to read
評分少一顆星是因為作者沒有(或許不敢)提齣解決問題的建議,當然這也不是她(生物學博士)的專項。這本書齣版的時候,有多少人注意到瞭社會分化的問題?所以不要糾結這本書的學術性瞭,寫成專著有誰會看呢?
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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...
Nickel and Dimed pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024