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Bait and Switch audiobook
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrator: Anne Twomey
- Category: Business & Economics, Economic Conditions
- Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 07, 2005
- Language: English
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Bait and Switch Audiobook Summary
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America’s ailing middle class what she did for the working poor.
Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in BAIT AND SWITCH, she enters another hidden realm of the economy–the world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional “in transition,” attempts to land a “middle class job” undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then begins trawling a series of EST-like “boot camps,” job fairs, “networking events,” and evangelical job-search “ministries.” She gets an “image makeover” to prepare her for the corporate world and works hard to project the “winning attitude” recommended for a successful job search. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured and, again and again, rejected.
BAIT AND SWITCH highlights the people who’ve done everything right–gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumes–yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today’s ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their “surplus” employees–plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job-searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for the new disposable workers–and little security even for those who have jobs.
Like the now classic Nickel and Dimed, BAIT AND SWITCH is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing expose of economic cruelty where we least expect it.
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Bait and Switch Audiobook Narrator
Anne Twomey is the narrator of Bait and Switch audiobook that was written by Barbara Ehrenreich
Anne Twomey is an accomplished actress of both stage and screen. Her Broadway credits include Orpheus Descending, with Vanessa Redgrave, To Grandmother’s House We Go, and Nuts, for which she received a Tony nomination and a Theatre World award. Her many television appearances include guest roles on Seinfeld, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Cosby Show, Spin City, and the Christopher Reeves’ movie-of-the-week Rear Window. She has also appeared in the films Picture Perfect and Orpheus Descending. Anne appears frequently on New York-based episodic TV such as Third Watch and Law & Order. Anne’s many audiobook credits include works by such authors as Dean Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates, Tracy Chevalier, and Barbara Ehrenreich. She is married to actor John Bedford Lloyd, also an audiobook narrator.
About the Author(s) of Bait and Switch
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Bait and Switch
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Bait and Switch Full Details
| Narrator | Anne Twomey |
| Length | 6 hours 50 minutes |
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | September 07, 2005 |
| ISBN | 9781593977313 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Bait and Switch is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Economic Conditions
Additional info
The publisher of the Bait and Switch is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781593977313.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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