Bait and Switch
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor 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 rAcsumAc of a professional qin transition, q she attempts to land a middle-class jobaundergoing 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, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, andaagain and againarejected. Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything rightagotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive rAcsumAcsayet 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 qsurplusq employeesaplunging 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 these newly disposable workersaand 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 exposAc of economic cruelty where we least expect it.Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed.
| Title | : | Bait and Switch |
| Author | : | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Publisher | : | Macmillan - 2006-07-25 |
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