Bait and Switch The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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- 9781593977290
- 07 september 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich is een Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver met een groot hart en een scherp oog voor de onderkant van de samenleving. Van haar verschenen in Nederland onder andere De achterkant van de Amerikaanse droom en Gouden bergen. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Barbara Ehrenreich, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Barbara Ehrenreich.
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The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for Americas ailing middle class what she did for the working poor.
Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in BAIT AND SWITCH, she enters another hidden realm of the economythe world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional in transition, 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 gets an image makeover to prepare her for the corporate world and works hard to project the winning attitude recommended for a successful job search. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured and, again and again, rejected.
BAIT AND SWITCH highlights the people whove done everything rightgotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumesyet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Todays ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their surplus employeesplunging 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, there are few social supports for the new disposable workersand 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 expose of economic cruelty where we least expect it.
Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in BAIT AND SWITCH, she enters another hidden realm of the economythe world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional in transition, 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 gets an image makeover to prepare her for the corporate world and works hard to project the winning attitude recommended for a successful job search. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured and, again and again, rejected.
BAIT AND SWITCH highlights the people whove done everything rightgotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumesyet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Todays ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their surplus employeesplunging 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, there are few social supports for the new disposable workersand 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 expose of economic cruelty where we least expect it.
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