BAIT AND SWITCH SIGNED HARDBACK BARBARA EHRENREICH USED FUTILE AMERICAN DREAM

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“Good condition for a Hardback. Black ink mark on inside front page. Photos are of this exact item.”
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Country/Region of Manufacture
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ISBN
9780805076066
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805076069
ISBN-13
9780805076066
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46466512

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bait and Switch : the (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political Economy, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Careers / Job Hunting, Economic Conditions, Labor
Publication Year
2005
Features
Revised
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Author
Barbara Ehrenreich
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-047916
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Praise for Nickel and Dimed: "We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's working poor so clearly and directly, and conveying with it a deep moral outrage . . . She is our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism." -The New York Times Book Review "Jarring, full of riveting grit . . . This book is already unforgettable." -Newsweek "Courageous . . . a superb and frightening look into the lives of hard-working Americans." -San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for Nickel and Dimed: "We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America's working poor so clearly and directly, and conveying with it a deep moral outrage . . . She is our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism." -The New York Times Book Review   "Jarring, full of riveting grit . . . This book is already unforgettable." -Newsweek "Courageous . . . a superb and frightening look into the lives of hard-working Americans." -San Francisco Chronicle
Dewey Decimal
650.14/086/22
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
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 resume 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 resumes--yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today's ultra-lean 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, 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 expose of economic cruelty where we least expect it.
LC Classification Number
HD5708.55.U6E47 2005

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