Book Critique: The Working Poor
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This phrase is so true because there is a lot of people living in poverty despite working day and night. David K. Shipler an American Author who has won the Pulitzer Prize set out to find out about the lives of the “Invisible America”. The Working Poor or the Invisible America are a group of society that was clearly latent in everyone’s eyes, but not in David Shipler sight. In 1997 the United States economy was climbing and many of its citizen were enjoying the good life while the Working poor were left in the shadow as always. The popular view on poverty has always been that poor people are poor because they are lazy, but it is not true and David Shipler was going to reveal the truth about them. The …show more content…
For example, David states “The man who washes cars does not own one and the woman who copyedits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade.” This is the Working poor or the Invisible America. Shipler’s purpose in setting himself out to find about the lives of The Working Poor, was to subdue the invisibility of that group. For six long years, Shipler dedicated himself into doing fieldwork in order to finally unveil what has been evidently hidden for a quite a long time. In order to reveal “the invisible America” David Shipler uses the personal stories of eight families, method of interview, and observation. Throughout these methods David Shipler takes us the lecturer into the hard world of the working poor to testify their daily struggles. He was a curious man so he was able to get into the working poor’s home, workplace, life experiences, and feelings. David shipler’s purpose was to reveal the invisible group, but in doing that he also achieved to change a little bit the popular view on poverty. In my opinion, after reading this book it changes your opinion a little bit about the working poor because they do work a lot, sometimes harder than the
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This phrase is so true because there is a lot of people living in poverty despite working day and night. David K. Shipler an American Author who has won the Pulitzer Prize set out to find out about the lives of the “Invisible America”. The Working Poor or the Invisible America are a group of society that was clearly latent in everyone’s eyes, but not in David Shipler sight. In 1997 the United States economy was climbing and many of its citizen were enjoying the good life while the Working poor were left in the shadow as always. The popular view on poverty has always been that poor people are poor because they are lazy, but it is not true and David Shipler was going to reveal the truth about them. The …show more content…
For example, David states “The man who washes cars does not own one and the woman who copyedits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade.” This is the Working poor or the Invisible America. Shipler’s purpose in setting himself out to find about the lives of The Working Poor, was to subdue the invisibility of that group. For six long years, Shipler dedicated himself into doing fieldwork in order to finally unveil what has been evidently hidden for a quite a long time. In order to reveal “the invisible America” David Shipler uses the personal stories of eight families, method of interview, and observation. Throughout these methods David Shipler takes us the lecturer into the hard world of the working poor to testify their daily struggles. He was a curious man so he was able to get into the working poor’s home, workplace, life experiences, and feelings. David shipler’s purpose was to reveal the invisible group, but in doing that he also achieved to change a little bit the popular view on poverty. In my opinion, after reading this book it changes your opinion a little bit about the working poor because they do work a lot, sometimes harder than the