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.
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自己會對這書感興趣,源於在別處偶然看到的評論,大意提到作者在超市打工時,在精神和身體雙重摺磨的高壓下,怎樣從一個心懷憐憫、關心底層、遠見卓識的Intellectuel,逐步被同化爲她的“一些底層同事”那樣——苛刻、狡猾、小肚鷄腸、滿懷怨恨。而我則同樣非常能夠理解“離人...
評分書就是書名所說的,我在底層的生活。 “我”, 芭芭拉,美國暢銷書作者,生活水平屬於上遊20%的人。有天在一個頗為奢華的法式鄉村風飯店跟《哈潑》雜誌的編輯討論未來可以替他們寫什麼文章,當話題轉到貧窮時,說瞭一句“實在應該有人去做一些老式的新聞調查工作,就是自己實...
評分評論來自健仔/香港獨立媒體) 「在社會如此富足豐裕的時刻,即便有著種族、教育、健康及動機所帶來的一切優勢,一個人在經濟的最底層仍然必須掙紮求生。」 《我在底層的生活》的作者—芭芭拉.艾倫瑞剋—是一位美國白人女性,過瞭六十歲的她是一位相當活躍的女性主義者。作者...
評分 評分很多人總是把“寒門難齣貴子”視作一種極大的不公 包括最熱門評論裏提到的 任誌強他爸爸不是商務部副部長的話 他不會取得這麼大成就 在我看來這不是一句巨大的正確的廢話? 這和你不去健身房就不會有好身材不做夠前戲就不會有愉悅的性體驗有什麼區彆? 傢庭難道不是一個人...
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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
評分惡性循環太可怕。
評分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.
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