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<p class="null1">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</p> <p>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.</p> <p>In <i>Bait and Switch</i>, 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.</p> <p><i>Bait and Switch</i> 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,

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Author

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Publisher

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780641786570

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.45 / 5 (139 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13