β Scribed by Ehrenreich, Barbara
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor
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**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. Armed with a plausible rΓ©sumΓ© of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a middle-class job --undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected.
Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything right--gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive...
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