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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

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By Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Henry Holt Co.
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of lowwage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch , she enters another hidden realm of the economy the shadowy world of the whitecollar unemployed. Armed with a plausible rsum of a professional in transition, she attempts to land a middleclass job undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of ESTlike boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical jobsearch ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and again and again rejected. Bait and Switch highlights the people whove done everything right gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive rsums yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Todays ultralean corporations take pride in shedding their surplus employees plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of whitecollar unemployment, where job searching becomes a fulltime job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly 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 expos of economic cruelty where we least expect it.

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59911 words59,911 words
256 pages256 pages
Lexile 1240LLexile 1240L
Published 2005Published 2005

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