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2024-05-15
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虽然本书事无巨细得记录了Janesville这一蓝领为主的“公司城镇”的兴衰,让人对“铁锈地带”增加了了解,但只是对这些蓝领报以同情、而不分析蓝领悲情背后的真正原因和提出实质有效的解决方案,让本书只是一本无趣的碎碎念而无法提供真正的养分。 另外,本书和美国一贯的“应得...
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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.
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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
评分这本同去年大热的Hillbilly Elegy一样,都可以作为对Trump获胜的理解,Janesville是Wisconsin的一个缩影(32年来第一次投给共和党)。内容关于2008年金融危机时,Jansville汽车产业的衰落,工人失业,家庭流离,连锁企业跟着倒闭。以及随后几年如何安抚、如何振兴、for homeless children: project 16:49,蓝领的美国梦。Janesville对国人很陌生,其实它曾经拥有GM历史最悠久的工厂,主要产品线是针对SUV,SUV需求下降后,工厂便也关闭。GM或Lear都是我曾耳熟的企业,如今也依旧还是令人自豪的大公司,人们不会忘记的吗?希望有人记录我们的国企下岗潮。评论待补。靠谱友邻推荐。audible。
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