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Bait and switch : the (futile) pursuit of the American dream
- Title
- Bait and switch : the (futile) pursuit of the American dream / Barbara Ehrenreich.
- Author
- Ehrenreich, Barbara.
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.
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- Description
- 237 pages; 22 cm
- 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 shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed." "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 ultralean 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, America's middle class is now the loser in a classic game of bait and switch, in which the promise of upward mobility and financial security has given way to a harsh reality of limited social supports for newly disposable workers - and no guarantees even for those who have jobs."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 0805076069
- LCCN
- 2005047916
- OCLC
- 58985721
- ocm58985721
- SCSB-5210833
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries