Ebook: Bait and switch: the (futile) pursuit of the American dream
Author: Ehrenreich Barbara
- Tags: Displaced workers, Displaced workers--United States, Downward mobility (Social sciences), Downward mobility (Social sciences)--United States, Job hunting, Job hunting--United States, White collar workers, White collar workers--United States, Displaced workers -- United States, White collar workers -- United States, Job hunting -- United States, Downward mobility (Social sciences) -- United States, United States
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
- City: United States
- Edition: 1st Owl Books ed.
- Language: English
- epub
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 résumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a middle-class job--undergoing 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, 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 résumés--yet have become repeatedly...