Bait and Switch - The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream

Middle class executives are the people who've done everything right - gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills and build up impressive resumes - yet they have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. In Bait and Switch, Ehrenreich enters 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. Poignant and blackly funny, Bait and Switch delivers a stark warning about the future that faces corporate employees everywhere and calls for collective action to guard against it.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich Barbara
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781783787524
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-752-4
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, United States of America, USA, Sociology: work & labour, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General