Bait And Switch - The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream (Hardcover)

Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America's white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives at first hand. Thinking she had set herself an easy challenge, the author was quite unprepared for what happened next. Ehrenreich found herself entering a shadowy world of Internet job searches, lonely networking events and costly career-coaching sessions, a world in which 'professional' mentors and trainers offer pop-psychology and self-help mantras to desperate would-be employees. Her story is an important one - poignant and blackly funny - that delivers a stark warning about the future that faces corporate employees everywhere and calls for collective action to guard against it.

General

Imprint:	Granta Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2006
Authors:	Barbara Ehrenreich
Dimensions:	195 x 130 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - B-format
Pages:	237
ISBN-13:	978-1-86207-897-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General Promotions
LSN:	1-86207-897-1
Barcode:	9781862078970

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