Barbara Ehrenreich on “Bait and Switch”
November 3rd, 2009. Published under Unemployment. No Comments.
goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible resume of a professional “in transition,” she attempts to land a “middle-class” job. She submits to career coaching, personality testing, and EST-like boot camps, and attends job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and – again and again – rejected. “Bait and Switch” …
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Barbara Ehrenreich on “Bait and Switch”