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.
发表于2025-03-04
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第一次知道铁西区这个地方是在双雪涛的小说里,以前在新闻里,听多了各种关于东北经济问题的探讨,什么如何振兴啦,如何解决就业问题啦,说的大多是产业升级、宏观经济。 而个体的命运在大时代面前往往显得十分的卑微,以至于不值一提。在小说家的眼里,个体和人性是最值得描写...
评分 评分 评分清晨7点零7分,最后一辆雪佛兰塔霍(Tahoe)驶下生产线。外面的天还暗着,气温15华氏度(约零下9摄氏度),积雪厚33英寸—几乎是12月降雪的最高纪录—一阵刺骨的寒风横扫过占地数英亩的停车场。 简斯维尔装配厂里灯火通明,人头攒动。准备走出工厂迎接未知将来的工人,与陆续走...
评分图书标签: 美国 经济 社会学 商业 FT年度最佳商业图书奖 政治 英语 工人阶级
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.
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!
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Clinton cannot read people as well as Obama
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