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发表于2024-12-22
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A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.
This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up.
Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, she makes one of America’s biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class.
For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.
Amy Goldstein has been a staff writer for thirty years at The Washington Post, where much of her work has focused on social policy. Among her awards, she shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She has been a fellow at Harvard University at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Janesville: An American Story is her first book. She lives in Washington, DC.
讲的是位于锈带上一个曾经是GM工厂的小城市衰退的故事。作者做了很多功课,跟踪各色人等五年有余,所以比去年特火的那个“悲歌”有内容多了,说不定也能拿普利策。不过我本人对union一向反感,觉得不是每个人都值得同情。除了孪生女孩,她俩实在是好孩子。
评分与本书主题无关的一点感想:打1.5份螺丝钉蓝领工就敢养娃养车养楼(娃和车还是复数的),每个礼拜groceries花200刀,然后银行账户上四舍五入等于没钱,前脚失业后脚就要取养老金续命。啊神奇的美国人民!真的不能理解
评分没有看完,故事节奏有点慢,用来随便翻看还好
评分为了更了解美国才看的,但是看了感觉暂时没啥深刻印象
评分一个产业连接一座城;产业兴,城兴;产业亡,城亡;Janesville属于后者,从书中看到了蓝领工人的无奈与挣扎,看到了什么才应该在美国put first! Blue Collar‘ s jobs! now,Trump came to power!
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评分作者:微尘(来自豆瓣) 来源:https://www.douban.com/note/752500533/ 《简斯维尔 : 一个美国故事》【美】艾米•戈德斯坦 / 徐臻 / 中信出版集团 / 2008年,华尔街投行接踵死去,次贷危机引发全美金融海啸,并最终席卷全球。 2009年,受金融危机影响,美国最大汽车生产商通...
评分在人类工业史上,任何一次产业转型或重组都不是风平浪静的,那些惊人的、华丽的转身往往只是一种事后表述。这显然是一个风险迭起的过程。而风险的承受者既包括可能破产的企业所有者、管理者,也包括被迫失业的、长期以此为业的产业工人,随着熟悉的工作被潮流卷走,他们的基本...
Janesville pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024