Bibliograph

Bait and switch, the (futile) pursuit of the American dream, Barbara Ehrenreich

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Bait and switch, the (futile) pursuit of the American dream, Barbara Ehrenreich

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bait and switch

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

58985721

Responsibility statement

Barbara Ehrenreich

Review

"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."

Sub title

the (futile) pursuit of the American dream

Summary

"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 ultralean 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, America's middle class is now the loser in a classic game of bait and switch, in which the promise of upward mobility and financial security has given way to a harsh reality of limited social supports for newly disposable workers - and no guarantees even for those who have jobs."--Publishers note

Table Of Contents

Finding a coach in the land of Oz -- Stepping out into the world of networking -- Surviving boot camp -- The transformation -- Networking with the Lord -- Aiming higher -- In which I am offered a "job" -- Downward mobility

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