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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book Review Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by “middle-class” jobs are a thing of the past. In Bait and Switch , Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world...
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Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible rsum of a professional in transition, she attempts to land a middle-class job -- undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover,...
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I realized that I knew very little about the mid- to upper levels of the corporate world, having so far encountered this world almost entirely through its low-wage, entry-level representatives. I was one of them—a server in a national chain restaurant, a cleaning person, and a Wal-Mart “associate”—in the course of researching an earlier book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Like everyone else, I’ve also encountered the corporate world as a consumer, dealing with people quite far...
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Frequent Nation contributor and best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed , Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to expose more of capitalism’s underbelly. This time she’s armed with a professional resume, an image makeover and a winning attitude as she enters the world of the white-collar unemployed. Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything right and still find themselves at the mercy of ultra-lean corporations who take pride in shedding their “surplus” employees.
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Bait and Switch highlights the people who have done everything right—gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés—yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. There are few social supports for these newly disposable workers, Ehrenreich discovers, and little security even for those who have jobs. Worst of all, there is no honest reckoning with the inevitable consequences of the harsh new economy; rather, the jobless are persuaded that they have...
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A wild bestseller in the field of poverty writing, Ehrenreich's 2001 expos‚ of working-class hardship, Nickel and Dimed, sold over a million copies in hardcover and paper. If even half that number of people buy this follow-up, which purports "to do for America's ailing middle class what [Nickel and Dimed] did for the working poor," it too will shoot up the bestseller lists. But PW suspects that many of those buyers will be disappointed. Ehrenreich can't deliver the promised story because she...
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The textbook, Bait and Switch : The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream (Cloth), by Barbara Ehrenreich, available in Hardback. Published by: MPS. Edition: . ISBN10: 0805076069. ISBN13: 9780805076066. Ships directly from the vendor. Not a marketplace or backordered item. Our used books are hand inspected and in very good condition.
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