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Lädt ... Arbeit poor. Unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaftvon Barbara Ehrenreich
  
Unread books (57) » 21 mehr Female Author (106) Books Read in 2017 (547) 2000s decade (15) 100 New Classics (82) SHOULD Read Books! (164) Macmillan Publishers (24) Five star books (1,103) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. All too true. (  ) mbellucci | Apr 10, 2021 |  Gimmicky. The author always had her funds to fall back on (and she did). It felt like another patronizing look at the poor in America. I think those who have lived paycheck to paycheck would appreciate this much less than those who haven't ever had to struggle. Nothing shocking, nothing new unless you're completely out of touch. And I never quite felt the author "got it." (  ) GiGiGo | Feb 5, 2021 | Not much has change in the decade since I re-read this book. ( ) bit-of-a-list-tiger | Oct 17, 2020 | I made the mistake of looking over some of the reviews when I was adding it here to my list. The opinions are pretty divided: the conservatives pretty much attack her credentials (or attack her ad hominem; point is sympathy is usually lacking in these folks), and those who agree seem to do uncritically (i.e. they don't question the author as much). I will try to put those opinions aside as I read it myself. I have been meaning to read it because some of the freshman composition classes where I used to work as a librarian read it for their classes. I finished the introduction, so I am already clear on the conditions of her experiment. We'll see how the rest of the book goes. * * * * See my blog post on it: http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/12/booknote-nickel-and-dimed.html In the GoodReads scheme, I gave it 3 stars for a book I liked. It is not a book I really like since I wish things were better, thus not needing to write books like these. That is the idealist part of me. She does get a bit preachy at time,s which I think can detract, so that also made me not give it a higher rating. However, I do highly recommend it to others out there. (  ) bloodravenlib | Aug 17, 2020 | This book is a good expose on the myth that the United States is a classless society, an assertion so blind that it would be comical if it were not one of the major myths perpetrated by corporate media. In fact, the newspaper series in the New York Times a couple of years ago which purported to be about class spent a good three quarters of the time trying to maintain this myth. Barbara Ehrenreich does her best to try to survive on entry-level jobs, and finds herself struggling severely. Eye opening on the level of Fast Food Nation. I read it for university. It surprised me only because I didn't grow up in a household that actually lived like Ms. Ehrenreich, which a good majority of the country does. If you didn't, you might catch some insight, but nothing more than you would working at a similar job and trying to pay rent. ( ) magonistarevolt | Apr 30, 2020 |
 We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's working poor so clearly and directly, and conveying with it a deep moral outrage and a finely textured sense of lives as lived. Ist enthalten inBearbeitet/umgesetzt in
Die renommierte US-Publizistin hat sich für ein Jahr in die Welt der working poor begeben, inkognito, auch gegenüber ihren Kollegen in Fast-Food-Restaurants, Reinigungs-Kolonnen. Regalbeschickern etc. Zu vergleichen ist ihre Studie mit der weiland von G. Wallraff: "Ganz unten" (BA 1/86); im Stil einer Dokumentation und Reportage, zugleich analytisch unterlegt und mit einem Nachwort von H. Afheldt, der untersucht, inwieweit die Befunde auch auf Deutschland zutreffen: Was man da zu lesen bekommt, schockiert. Am gravierendsten, dass der Zusammenhang von Erwerbsarbeit und Existenzsicherung aufgehoben zu sein scheint: Die Autorin rechnet akribisch vor, wie Löhne (aus 2 Arbeitsverhältnissen) und Ausgaben auseinander klaffen. Genauso problematisch aber stellt sich die Frage der Menschenrechte in einem Land dar, in dem simpelste Bedürfnisse, wie der Toilettengang, der Kostenminimierung geopfert und die Beschäftigten einer diktatorischen Demütigungsstrategie ausgesetzt werden. Im Zuge der deutschen Diskussion um Globalisierung und Niedriglohnbereich höchst aufschlussreich und unbedingt empfohlen. (1) (Haike Wirrmann)
Ein Jahr lang begab sich die Publizistin in die Welt der amerikanischen "working poor" und zeigt in ihrer Reportage die menschenverachtenden Zustände einer nur auf Ökonomie zugeschnittenen Welt. (Haike Wirrmann) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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