Bait and Switch

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• Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream By Barbara Ehrenreich

  Urged on by pleas from middle-class readers of her best-selling book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich launched a new book project that she hoped would do for white-collar work what Nickel and Dimed had done for low-wage work. In Nickel and Dimed, ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

• Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

  Review-a-Day Saturday, September 17th, 2005 Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich A review by Gerry Donaghy Back in 2001, Barbara Ehrenreich published a book examining the plight of America's lowest wage ea ... (read full critics)

  powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  Though the grim view of the economic donward movement for white-collar cooprate workers is scary enought, given I might count as one of them, the too much too often contradictory sarcasm, especially in the quote un-quote style, reduces the book to merely a sophisticately written parody than an awake ... (continue)

  Though the grim view of the economic donward movement for white-collar cooprate workers is scary enought, given I might count as one of them, the too much too often contradictory sarcasm, especially in the quote un-quote style, reduces the book to merely a sophisticately written parody than an awakening call.

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• English Books
• Paperback 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1862078971
• ISBN-13: 9781862078970
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Pub date: Mar 06, 2006
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書

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