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” …
Barbara Ehrenreich on “Bait and Switch”
This entry was posted in The Basics and tagged America, bait, corporate, corporation, dimed, economy, jobs, nickel, personality, switch, test, unemployed, unemployment, working. Bookmark the permalink.
