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Bait and Switch The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

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ISBN-10: 0805081240

ISBN-13: 9780805081244

Edition: N/A

Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich

List price: $17.00
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The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from " our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism" -- The New York Times Book Review Americans' working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by " middle-class" jobs are a thing of the past. In "Bait and Switch," Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible re sume of a professional " in transition, " she attempts to land a " middle-class" job. She submits to career coaching, personality…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 7/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.

Introduction
Finding a Coach in the Land of Oz
Stepping Out 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
Afterword
Acknowledgments