Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0641786573
ISBN 13
9780805076066
Category
650-659 Management
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
256
Subject
Displaced workers -- United States. White collar workers -- United States. Job hunting -- United States.
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Abstract
"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."--Publishers note.
"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."--Publishers note.
Description
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9780805076066 0805076069
OCLC Number: 58985721
Awards: Short-listed for Quill Awards (Business) 2006
Description: 237 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Barbara Ehrenreich.
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9780805076066 0805076069
OCLC Number: 58985721
Awards: Short-listed for Quill Awards (Business) 2006
Description: 237 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Barbara Ehrenreich.
Number of Copies
1
