false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167529573m/24450.jpg 24450 8 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 <i>Bait and Switch</i>, Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible résumé of a professional “in transition,” she attempts to land a “middle-class” job. She submits to career coaching, personality testing, and EST-like boot camps, and attends job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and—again and again—rejected. <i>Bait and Switch</i> 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 only themselves to blame. Alternately hilarious and tragic, <i>Bait and Switch</i>, like the classic <i>Nickel and Dimed</i>, is a searing exposé of the cruel new reality in which we all now live. 2366544 2005 Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream total:1345|5:144|4:364|3:533|2:234|1:69| 1345 4316 1966 251 2 6 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 05 15:25:48 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 15:03:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Oct 02 14:19:49 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 14:48:24 -0700 2007
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I was looking forward to reading Barbara Ehrenreich's latest tome, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. I really enjoyed Nickel and Dimed in which the author took on several minimum wage type jobs and tried to live on her salary. H...more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Aug 30 18:57:19 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 19:02:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun May 06 19:06:11 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 19:07:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Nov 17 19:27:04 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 11:19:07 -0800 2007
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