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Lowest of the Low is a 1985 book by German author and undercover journalist Günter Wallraff about Turkish Gastarbeiter living in Germany. Under an assumed Turkish name and dressed to pass as "Turkish," at least in the eyes of most Germans, Wallraff worked low-wage jobs typically occupied by Turkish Gastarbeiter in Germany, including working illegally and in unsafe conditions. Wallraff's undercover work exposed the xenophobia and prejudice of many Germans against Turks.[1]
Books with similar themes and undercover strategies include Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (2001), John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me (1961), and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London (1933).
References
[edit]- ^ Kuhn, Anna K., Bourgeois Ideology and the (Mis) Reading of Günter Wallraff's Ganz Unten, New German Critique, No. 46, Special Issue on Minorities in German Culture (Winter, 1989), pp. 191-202 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/488322