The Working Poor: Invisible in America 平装

图书标准信息

• 作者 David K. Shipler 著
• 出版社 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• 出版时间 2005-01
• ISBN 9780375708213
• 定价 126.70元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 352页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Vintage

【内容简介】

“NobodywhoworkshardshouldbepoorinAmerica,”writesPulitzerPrizewinnerDavidShipler.Clear-headed,rigorous,andcompassionate,hejourneysdeeplyintothelivesofindividualstoreclerksandfactoryworkers,farmlaborersandsweat-shopseamstresses,illegalimmigrantsinmenialjobsandAmericanssaddledwithimmensestudentloansandpaltrywages.Theyareknownastheworkingpoor.

TheyperformlaboressentialtoAmerica’scomfort.Theyarewhiteandblack,LatinoandAsian--menandwomeninsmalltownsandcityslumstrappednearthepovertyline,wherethemarginsaresotightthatevenminorsetbackscancausedevastatingchainreactions.Shiplershowshowliberalsandconservativesarebothpartlyright–thatpracticallyeverylifestorycontainsfailurebyboththesocietyandtheindividual.Bracedbyhardfactandpersonaltestimony,heunravelstheforcesthatconfinepeopleinthequagmireoflowwages.Andunlikemostworksonpoverty,thisbookalsoofferscompellingportraitsofemployersstrugglingagainstrazor-thinprofitsandcompetitionfromabroad.WithpointedrecommendationsforchangethatchallengeRepublicansandDemocratsalike,TheWorkingPoorstandstomakeadifference.

【作者简介】

DavidK.ShiplerworkedfortheNewYorkTimesfrom1966to1988,reportingfromNewYork,Saigon,Moscow,andJerusalembeforeservingaschiefdiplomaticcorrespondentinWashington,D.C.HehasalsowrittenforTheNewYorker,theWashingtonPost,andtheLosAngelesTimes.Heistheauthorofthreeotherbooks–Russia:BrokenIdols,SolemnDreams;thePulitzerPrize–winningArabandJew:WoundedSpiritsinaPromisedLand;andACountryofStrangers:BlacksandWhitesinAmerica.Mr.Shipler,whohasbeenaguestscholarattheBrookingsInstitutionandaseniorassociateattheCarnegieEndowmentforInternationalPeace,hastaughtatPrincetonUniversity,atAmericanUniversityinWashington,D.C.andatDartmouthCollege.HelivesinChevyChase,Maryland.