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.
General Information
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- : Granta Books
- : Granta Books
- : 01 March 2006
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Barbara Ehrenreich
- : 1
- : 256