Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
- ISBN 10: 1593977298
- ISBN 13: 9781593977290
- Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Edition: Unabridged
- Release: 2005-09-07
- Format: Audio CD
- List Price: $29.95
- Tags: Business & Investing, General, Economics, Economic Conditions, Labor & Industrial Relations, International
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Book Description: 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 world of the white-colla white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional -in transition,+ attempts to land a -middle class job+ undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then begins trawling a series of EST-like -boot camps,+ job fairs, -networking events,+ and evangelical job-search -ministries.+ She gets an -image makeover+ to prepare her for the corporate world and works hard to project the -winning attitude+ recommended for a successful job search. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured and, again and again, rejected.BAIT AND SWITCH highlights the people who+ve done everything right-gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumes-yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today+s ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their -surplus+ employees-plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job-searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for the new disposable workers-and little security even for those who have jobs. Like the now classic Nickel and Dimed, BAIT AND SWITCH is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing expose of economic cruelty where we least expect it.
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