Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream
Author(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
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 a pretty 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.
Product Information
'Barbara Ehrenreich is our premier reporter of the underside of Capitalism' New York Times
General Fields
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- : Granta Books
- : Granta Books
- : 01 March 2006
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 256
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Barbara Ehrenreich