num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream
titlecomplete: Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream
characters: Hillary Meister, Leah Gray, Rev. Jack Rilger, Jim Lukasewski, Donna Eudovique, Jeff Clement, John D. Wise, Barbara Ehrenreich, Patrick Knowles, Laiman Godel, Laurie Wise, Dean Gottschalk, Tom Chang
genres: Cultural, Business, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, Economics, Sociology, Journalism, Audiobook, Society
ratings_count: 4790
publisher: Granta Books