作者：AmyGoldstein
出版社：Simon&Schuster
副标题：AnAmericanStory
出版年：2017-4-18
页数：368
定价：USD27.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781501102233
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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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.
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没有看完，故事节奏有点慢，用来随便翻看还好
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！
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。Janesv…
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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