Janesville

书名：JanesvilleAnAmericanStory
作者：AmyGoldstein
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ISBN：9781501102233
出版社：Simon&Schuster
出版时间：2017-4-18
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：368
豆瓣评分： 8.5

书籍简介：

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.

作者简介：

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.

书友短评：

@ QuietAmbassa 3.5 写的不比evicted差 非常好的管中窥豹看08年金融危机对a smalltown, USA of historic importance 普通百姓的影响。由于就业和经济环境的不同 老实说很难对这些former GM workers有什么真正的同情 $28/h的蓝领工作在这种全球经济下早晚要没 但hardship还是hardship 无论在哪个家庭中都是难的同情还是很令人心里难受的 最喜欢后半关于in-crisis teens的社工的部分 @ c h l 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 [有声书] 通用汽车GM在 As a narrative non-fiction, its words excel and its sentimental power exceeds that of "Strangers in their Own Land" or "Hillbilly Elegy". This genre is about "what has happened", and the question of "why" is left for other books. But the glistening little gems — "the person on the other side". @ 握愚 08到13年事无巨细的记录，看完书才知道美国蓝领从前生活这么舒服

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