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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream Paperback - 2006

by Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The bestselling author of "Nickel and Dimed" goes back undercover to enter the world of the white-collar unemployed. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly disposable workers--and little security even for those who have jobs.

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  • Title Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
  • Author Ehrenreich, Barbara
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York
  • Date 2006-07-25
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # J05M-00982
  • ISBN 9780805081244 / 0805081240
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Reading level 1240
  • Library of Congress subjects Job hunting - United States, Displaced workers - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 650.140

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Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was a bestselling author and political activist, whose more than a dozen books included Nickel and Dimed, which the New York Times described as a classic in social justice literature, Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing In The Streets, and Blood Rites. An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalis