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
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eng
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1240, Lexile
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Bait and switch
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45297558985721
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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the (futile) pursuit of the American dream
Summary
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 world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a "middle class job" undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then begins trawling a series of EST-like "boot camps," job fairs, "networking events," and evangelical job-search "ministries." She 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 resumes-yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. Like the now classic "Nickel and dimed", "Bait and switch" is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing expose of economic cruelty where we least expect it
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- Finding a coach in the Land of Oz -- Stepping 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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments
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