{"product_id":"bait-and-switch-the-futile-pursuit-of-the-american-dream-9780805081244","title":"Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmericans' 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBait and Switch\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 résumé of a professional in transition, she attempts to land a middle-class job. She submits to career coaching, personality testing, and EST-like boot camps, and attends job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBait and Switch\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the people who have done everything right--gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés--yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. There are few social supports for these newly disposable workers, Ehrenreich discovers, and little security even for those who have jobs. Worst of all, there is no honest reckoning with the inevitable consequences of the harsh new economy; rather, the jobless are persuaded that they have only themselves to blame. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlternately hilarious and tragic, \u003ci\u003eBait and Switch\u003c\/i\u003e, like the classic \u003ci\u003eNickel and Dimed\u003c\/i\u003e, is a searing exposé of the cruel new reality in which we all now live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-97989\"\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holt McDougal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805081244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805081240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS022000\"\u003eEconomic Conditions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL013000\"\u003eLabor \u0026amp; Industrial Relations\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS029000\"\u003eFree Enterprise \u0026amp; Capitalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNickel and Dimed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBright-sided\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Land Is Their Land\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDancing in the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlood Rites\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, she has also been a columnist at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She is the winner of the \u003ci\u003eL.A. Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Current Interest and ALA Notable Books for Nonfiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEhrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism. 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