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The New York Times Bestselling Investigation Into Whitecollar Unemployment From 'Our Premier Reporter Of The Underside Of Capitalism'The New York Times Book Reviewamericans' Working Lives Are Growing More Precarious Every Day. Corporations Slash Employees By The Thousands, And The Benefits And Pensions Once Guaranteed By 'Middleclass' 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 Whitecollar Unemployed. Armed With The Plausible Rsum Of A Professional 'In Transition,' She Attempts To Land A 'Middleclass' Job. She Submits To Career Coaching, Personality Testing, And Estlike Boot Camps, And Attends Job Fairs, Networking Events, And Evangelical Jobsearch Ministries. She Is Proselytized, Scammed, Lectured, Andagain And Againrejected.Bait And Switch Highlights The People Who Have Done Everything Rightgotten College Degrees, Developed Marketable Skills, And Built Up Impressive Rsumsyet 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.Alternately Hilarious And Tragic, Bait And Switch, Like The Classic Nickel And Dimed, Is A Searing Expos Of The Cruel New Reality In Which We All Now Live.
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