Hand to Mouth
Autor Linda Tiradoen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2015
DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of "Nickel and Dimed," which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. TIRADO IS THE REAL THING. Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword
As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don t get heard from much. Now they have a voice and it s forthright, funny, and just a little bit furious.
Here, Linda Tirado tells what it s like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money. She also answers questions often asked about those who live on or near minimum wage: Why don t they get better jobs? Why don t they make better choices? Why do they smoke cigarettes and have ugly lawns? Why don t they borrow from their parents?
Enlightening and entertaining, "Hand to Mouth"opens up a new and much-needed dialogue between the people who just don t have it and the people who just don t get it."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780425277973
ISBN-10: 0425277976
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 139 x 209 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0425277976
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 139 x 209 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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Descriere
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Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any.
In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face.
Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any.
In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face.
Recenzii
I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Devastatingly smart and funny, consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. Linda Tirado is the real thing
Conveys harsh realities with the unshakeable integrity of true, lived experience, combined with brilliant analysis, deep intelligence and flaming humour ... Anyone interested in fairness and justice should read this book
Hand to Mouth is phenomenal. Profoundly moving, smart, brilliant
Part memoir, part polemic, part howl of protest ... an important [read]
Hand to Mouth - written with scorching flair - should be read by every person lucky enough to have a disposable income
Tirado strips away our capacity to avoid the truth, to be sidetracked. Tirado tells us what we all secretly know every time we catch a glimpse of the night cleaner in the early-morning office finishing up and then heading off to a second job
A very good writer who describes life on the economic margins with biting wit and a lot of insight
Conveys harsh realities with the unshakeable integrity of true, lived experience, combined with brilliant analysis, deep intelligence and flaming humour ... Anyone interested in fairness and justice should read this book
Hand to Mouth is phenomenal. Profoundly moving, smart, brilliant
Part memoir, part polemic, part howl of protest ... an important [read]
Hand to Mouth - written with scorching flair - should be read by every person lucky enough to have a disposable income
Tirado strips away our capacity to avoid the truth, to be sidetracked. Tirado tells us what we all secretly know every time we catch a glimpse of the night cleaner in the early-morning office finishing up and then heading off to a second job
A very good writer who describes life on the economic margins with biting wit and a lot of insight