The Resource Bait and switch : the futile pursuit of the corporate dream, Barbara Ehrenreich
Bait and switch : the futile pursuit of the corporate dream, Barbara Ehrenreich
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- Summary
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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
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 237 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005
- Isbn
- 9781862078970
- Label
- Bait and switch : the futile pursuit of the corporate dream
- Title
- Bait and switch
- Title remainder
- the futile pursuit of the corporate dream
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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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
- 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
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- Ehrenreich, Barbara
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- Displaced workers
- White collar workers
- Job hunting
- Downward mobility (Social sciences)
- Target audience
- general
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- Bait and switch : the futile pursuit of the corporate dream, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- FIEb13403631
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 237 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781862078970
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)62479279
- Label
- Bait and switch : the futile pursuit of the corporate dream, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- txt
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- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 237 pages
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- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781862078970
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