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Millions of Americans work all year round and earn low salaries. In 1998, Barbara. Ellen Rick decided to join them. What made her make this decision is that those words that make people "change their lives" say that as long as there is a job, whatever it is, you can move you to a better life. But how can one survive on an hourly salary of six to seven dollars, let alone success?

To find out, she wore a sixty-year-old driver, from Florida to Maine to Minnesota. Barbara has worked as a waitress, hotel roomkeeper, cleaning lady, care home assistant, and Wal-Mart. Salesperson. She soon discovered that no job is really "no skill required", and even the lowest level of work requires a huge amount of mental and physical effort. She also learned that one job is not enough. If you want a stable, you need at least two jobs.

With her usual humor and spicy description, she described this low-paid life mixed with sweat, tears, detergent and ketchup.

Book title

My Life at the Bottom: When a Columnist Turns into a Waitress

Author

Barbara. Ehrenreich, Barbara

Translator

Lin Jiayu

Pages

320

Publishing house

Zuoan Cultural Enterprise Co., Ltd.

date of publish

2010/10/01

Price: NT $ 300

Binding: paperback

ISBN: 9789866723452

. This month, she deeply realized that under the salary level and high-pressure management, no matter how motivated people can not turn over (especially middle-aged women); but in the bottom life, the labor She is very moved by pleasure and true temperament.

Barbara wanted to speak for the vast number of workers, because they are the real force to sustain this society, but the returns are disproportionate. After this book went on sale, it caused widespread repercussions throughout the United States, and major media also shot related special reports on the subject of this book. After the financial turmoil, the poor became a common phenomenon, and this book also became a representative work exploring the Working Poor.

After reading this book, the next time you use a hotel bathroom or have a meal in a restaurant, your mindset will definitely be very different.