Bait and switch : the (futile) pursuit of the American dream /
"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 u...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books,
2005.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 237 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780805076066 0805076069 |