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Questions for Barbara Ehrenreich
Through over three decades of journalism and activism and over a dozen books, Barbara Ehrenreich has been one of the most consistent and imaginative chroniclers of class in America, but it was her bestselling 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, a undercover expose of the day-to-day struggles of the working poor, that has been the most influential work of her career. Now, with Bait and Switch, she has gone undercover again, this time as a middle-aged professional trying to get a white-collar job in corporate America. We asked her a few questions about what she found:
Amazon.com: Your previous book, Nickel and Dimed, became a blockbuster bestseller with a classic "there but for the grace of God go I" liberal message just when the general political mood of the country seemed to be going in a very different direction. Why do you think it struck such a chord? What sorts of reactions have you gotten to it over the past four years?
Barbara Ehrenreich: A lot of Nickel and Dimed readers are people who regularly inhabit the low-wage work world, and many of them write to tell me that the book affirmed their experience and made them feel less alone and ignored. Other readers though, are affluent people who write to say I opened their eyes to a world they'd been unaware of. For those people, I think one appealing feature of Nickel and Dimed is that it's a personal narrative that gives them a look at lives lived at the margins of their own. The most gratifying response has been from people who tell me the book inspired them to become activists for things like a living wage or affordable housing.
Amazon.com: At what point did you realize that your new book, Bait and Switch, in which you went undercover again, this time to tell a story of working in corporate America, was instead becoming one of not working in corporate America? Is that the story you expected to tell?
Ehrenreich: My initial aim was not "to tell a story of working in corporate America" but to try to understand the human underside of corporate America--the job insecurity, the constant layoffs and downsizings that now occur even in the best of times. I expected to get a job and hence an inside view, but I always knew that that would be very difficult. After about 4-5 months of job searching, I began to get seriously discouraged, but I also came to understand that a fruitless search is in fact a very common experience. After all, today 44 percent of the long-term unemployed are white collar folks--an unusually high percentage. It's their world I entered, and their story that I tell in Bait and Switch.
Amazon.com: For someone with a white-collar career, you didn't have much experience in corporate culture before you attempted to join it for this book. What surprised you the most about what you found?
Ehrenreich: What surprised me most, right from day one of my job search, was the surreal nature of the job searching business. For example, everyone, from corporations to career coaches, relies heavily on "personality tests" which have no scientific credibility or predictive value. One test revealed that I have a melancholy and envious nature and, for some reason, was unsuited to be a writer! And what does "personality" have to do with getting the job done, anyway? There's far less emphasis on skills and experience than on whether you have the prescribed upbeat and likeable persona. I kept wondering: Is this any way to run a business? I was also surprised--and disgusted--by the constant victim-blaming you encounter among coaches, at networking events for the unemployed, and in the business advice books. You're constantly told that whatever happens to you is the result of your attitude or even your "thought forms"--not a word about the corporate policies that lead to so much turmoil and misery.
Amazon.com: You seemed to make much closer ties with your fellow workers in Nickel and Dimed than you did on the white-collar job hunt. What was different this time?
Ehrenreich: You're right--there is a difference. But it's not so much a matter of personalities as it is about two different worlds. There's a lot of camaraderie in the blue-collar world I entered in Nickel and Dimed. People help each other and look out for each other; they laugh together--often at the managers. The white-collar world doesn't encourage camaraderie, far from it. There it's all about competition and fear--of losing one's job, for one thing. Other people are seen as sources of contacts or tips, at best; as competitors or rivals, at worst. And among the unemployed add shame and a sense of personal failure, the constant message that it's all your own fault. All this discourages any solidarity with others or real openness.
Amazon.com: God forbid anyone would come to your book as a guide for finding a white-collar job, but what advice would you give to someone in the shoes you put yourself in: a middle-aged professional woman, in fear of falling irrevocably out of touch with the world of the regularly employed?
Ehrenreich: You don't think I'd make a good career coach? OK, but I have three pieces of advice for the middle-aged, middle-class job seeker anyway:
One, be very careful how you spend your money and time. Since the mid-90s, a whole industry has sprung up to help--or, depending on your point of view, prey upon--white-collar job seekers. The "professionals" in this business are usually entirely unlicensed and unregulated. Also, watch out for events billed as "networking" opportunities that really have another agenda--like recruiting you into expensive coaching or proselytizing you into a particular religion.
Two, don't count on the internet job sites to find you a job or even an interview. On any of these sites, your resume will be competing with hundreds of thousands of others, and most large companies today don't even bother reading online resumes; they have computer programs scan them for keywords (and you won't know what those keywords are.)
Three, and most important: stop believing that it's your own fault. That's the first step to recognizing the common problems facing white-collar workers and responding to them. I'd be thrilled if this book, like Nickel and Dimed, also inspires readers to get involved and become active in efforts to make life a little easier for the growing numbers of people who are unemployed, underemployed, or anxiously employed. What could they do? Lobby for universal health insurance that's not tied to a job, for example. Fight for extended unemployment benefits. Raise their voices to complain about corporate tax breaks and subsidies that are justified in terms of "job creation" but often go to companies that are busy laying people off. One major reason job loss is so catastrophic is that we just don't have much of a safety net in this country. That has to change, and who's going to make it change, if not people like those I met in Bait and Switch? I've got a new website, barbaraehrenreich.com, and I'd like to hear from readers--both their stories and their ideas for how to take action.
Classic Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America |
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Book Description
The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book Review
Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by “middle-class” jobs are a thing of the past.
In Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible résumé 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 highlights the people who have done everything right—gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés—yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. There are few social supports for these newly disposable workers, Ehrenreich discovers, and little security even for those who have jobs. Worst of all, there is no honest reckoning with the inevitable consequences of the harsh new economy; rather, the jobless are persuaded that they have only themselves to blame.
Alternately hilarious and tragic, Bait and Switch, like the classic Nickel and Dimed, is a searing exposé of the cruel new reality in which we all now live.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting, but has holes.......2007-10-17
I read Bait and Switch on a four-hour plane ride. It was entertaining, but I found it a tad intellectually dishonest. While Ehrenreich introduces readers to some colorful characters, she's obviously making points she set out to make. While I share her sympathies entirely, it's tough believing that she could not land a job. The deck was stacked. I would have preferred reading a real profile, not a character created to meet a need.
Flawed, But Worthwhile.......2007-10-14
Ehrenreich is a gifted journalist capable of great empathy with her subjects and a biting wit. Her description of the status anxiety of the middle class, the pain of unemployment, and the blame-the-victim ethos that so governs the treatment of the unemployed as to be internalized by them, is therefore extremely good.
The problem, however, is that she does not land the job that allows her to write the sequel to "Nickel and Dimed" that she set out to write. She looks for a job, and the story she tells about looking for a job is interesting and worthwhile. But she does not get the job, and her observations about life in the corporate world are simply educated guesses.
Still, I tend to agree with her core thesis. There is a certain arbitrariness to the selection of those who fall out of the middle class -- via bad luck, age, high salary when it comes to downsizing. And there simply are not enough middle class jobs to go around. So people lose their status, and those with jobs are far more anxious about the continuation of their status than was the case 30 years ago.
Unfortunately, Ehrenreich did not get the job that would have given her the opportunity to make some of insights in a persuasive fashion. Her lack of a job may well demonstrate that the screening system is not entirely arbitrary. Ehrenreich lacks the paper credentials for the public relations job she seeks. And, having not really worked in the corporate sector, does not have the contacts necessary to get the job. Given her lack of real interest in the job or real qualification for it, she really can't draw too many negative inferences from her failure to get a job.
Ehrenreich's descriptions of career coaches and the psycho-babble of business books are right on the mark and are very funny.
This is a good book, but not lacks the first hand undercover experience that made "Nickel and Dimed" a classic.
The book I loved to hate!.......2007-09-22
This book exposes the real world of a dying, struggling middle class.
If you aren't aware of what can happen to hard-working people with great jobs that they love, and suddenly find themselves downsized into poverty, you are one of the lucky ones.
Yes, there are always jobs for people who really want to work, but if the only jobs you can find, as author illustrates, won't allow you to keep up with the basic expenses of living... Well, quite frankly you are up the creek without a paddle. And because of corporate downsizing and outsourcing of jobs to other countries, that boat is full of of passengers without a paddle.
The problem is that people in this situation THOUGHT that they had a paddle that should have allowed them to sail through this situation: education, experience, good resume, references and a solid work ethic.
Read Bait and Switch and decide for yourself if the middle class is dying in America.
As an economics professor.......2007-09-20
I believe in having students read something besides the textbook. This one while informative, I would have to pass on. If my college students read this, they will despair, leave college and then I would be one of those people in the book.
When are companies going to get that it takes two to tango. Supply AND demand? When we are all living on minimum wage, who is going to buy their stuff? Oh well............try this one
biased, selective, scarstic.......2007-09-14
the focus on few loser in the networking process ignores those who got the job and left networking.
the criticism of the self-help movement is inspiring but plays the victimization game that individual problem is entirely the product of the environment and the fault of somebody else.
too much inappropriate and distracted remarks.
Average customer rating:
- Liked the book and would recommend the book
- A great movie for the inside of your head
- Brooks hones his craft . . . and
- "I want you to seduce my wife"
- Publishers Weekly raves, with good reason
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Bait and Switch
Larry Brooks
Manufacturer: Signet
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Book Description
Meet Wolfgang Schmitt: former model, newly single, habitual wise-ass. It's a profile only his ailing mother could love-but it makes him perfect for one thing...
Billionaire Nelson Scott wants Schmitt to seduce his wife-setting off a prenuptial clause that will keep her hands off his money. The job pays a million bucks just for trying. Another four if he pulls it off. All he has to do is say yes. But in the big leagues of money and power, when deals get made, Schmitt happens.
Customer Reviews:
Liked the book and would recommend the book.......2006-12-27
Books are always up to interpretention.
I liked this book and enjoyed the reading. It was fast reading. had a believable story, and kept my interest.
A great movie for the inside of your head.......2006-02-11
as with all boooks I read I find that I cannot enjoy the book untill I "Cast" the roles with stars to hear the voice and to really see in my minds eye the action as it unfolds in the book. This one in particular clicked right away. I saw Johnny Depp as Wolfgang and Michael Douglas as the millionare. The action unfolded brilliantly as our hero became played by more than one side. But the best part in the book is when Wolfgang is showing the millionares secretary why he was hired while in the limozine with her. Som of the best dialoge I have ever read and the last four chapters will have you saying "No Friggin way" more than once. Excellent
Brooks hones his craft . . . and .......2005-04-17
introduces his readers to a most interesting and complex male character, former male model Wolfgang Schmidt.
Wolf's love life is in the toilet and his professional career is on the skids, so when a Silicon Valley billionaire pitches him a win-win deal, Wolf doesn't have to think too hard to seal the deal.
What Mr. Billionaire wants is for Wolf to seduce Mrs. Billionaire so Mr. Billionaire won't have to pony up some $3 million per month in spousal support because if she lives with Wolf for more than 30 days, Mr. and Mrs.' pre-nup is null and void.
In return, Wolf gets a sizeable deposit in an off-shore bank account . . . and a ticket to financial freedom.
Once the players are engaged, so to speak, complications come from every angle. Wolf's former girlfriend reappears briefly. He begins to fall for Mrs. Billionaire. The IRS and the FBI show up at his door and make him a counter-offer that he CANNOT refuse, if he wants to keep any kind of freedom.
How Brooks brings all these angles into play, while keeping the reader from knowing the truth, is quite a tour de force. There's only one brief hint to the answer we're all looking for . . . and Brooks hides it well.
Wolf is a character I'd like to see again. And I'm glad Brooks has limited his interest in the "dark arts" to only a few pages this time around.
Well done, Larry. Keep it up.
"I want you to seduce my wife".......2005-01-07
Wolfgang Schmitt is very disappointed with his job in a marketing company; he is a former model who attracts ladies by the thousands, but who has just been dumped by the love of his life. After a meeting with a client goes south, he is just about ready to quit. But that is exactly when he is faced with an astounding revelation; his assistant is working in the company just to determine if he is a good candidate for a very important mission.
Wolfgang does not have a lot to lose, so he jumps on a private plane that Nelson Scott, the real employer of Wolfgang's assistant, sends for him and starts an exciting journey. Nelson is separated from a wife that likes to sleep around and who will get a monthly alimony in the amount of $3 million for the rest of her life. Unless, of course, Nelson can provide proof of her adultery, in which case she gets nada. That is why Wolfgang receives an offer of one million dollars just for trying to seduce Kelly Scott; amount that will increase fourfold if he succeeds.
Brooks returns to the quality level he delivered in "Darkness Bound", providing the readers with an exciting plot full of twists and turns and that has a fair share of spicy moments too. Those of you who were somewhat disappointed with his second book, "Pressure Points", as I was, should give this author another opportunity. I am surely glad I did. Now I must go back and check "Serpent's Dance", which I hope is another page-turner that will keep me up all night as "Bait and Switch" did.
Publishers Weekly raves, with good reason.......2004-12-06
I just read that this book was named one of the 5 "best and most overlooked" books of 2004 by Publishers Weekly. They also gave the book a STARRED REVIEW and named it their lead "Editor's Choice" for July, ahead of such luminaries at Walter Mosley and Jeffrey Deaver. Serious props. Also, it's the only paperback on either of those lists. Maybe the first ever. Which is unfortunate, because the major magazines don't review paperback originals. Too bad, since this book should have been a hardcover smash bestseller, in the tradition of Nelson DeMille and Harlan Coben, lots of personality and plot. Brooks' other books were steamy thrillers, wonderful in their own right, but with this book he announces he's ready for a more mainstream audience. Every person who has read or reviewed the book seem to agree.
Book Description
Enter the world of the O.C.Told from different points-of-view and using different storytelling techniques, it's a unique look in side the lives of Seth, Ryan, Marissa, and Summer.
Customer Reviews:
best book in the series!!!.......2007-07-14
This book is a really good book. Out of all of the books in the series, this one is definitely my favorite. It talks about the scavenger hunt held in LA for charity. It is told from the different view points of the four main characters, Seth, Summer, Ryan, and Marissa. It is very funny as well, almost as funny as the television series itself. All in all, an awesome read if you're a fan of the OC (and even if you're not) :)
OC book = awesome.......2006-03-29
I just bought this book the other day and I liked it so much Im already done reading it. If your a fan on the show you will really enjoy this book it's alot like the show and kinda cool because it's a new story thats not on tv. The story takes place in LA the fab 4 are on a sacavenger hunt and have to ride the city bus all over town as summer would say(and does) EW! Buy this you won't be sorry!!!
Customer Reviews:
Action-packed Thomas Crowne Affair........2001-04-15
Sara Madison is an art teacher, not a forger. However, her ability is such that she can make some damn good forgeries. She says she's only doing it so she can have her revenge. Sparks fly when Noah Lancaster butts in her plans & the action takes off. Who does he think he is anyway--James Bond?
Customer Reviews:
A poser in the professional work force.......2007-07-19
I understand what Ehrenreich was trying to do. This book was highly recommended by an adult collage student friend. She like it and was very impressed by the entire concept.
I however work in the professional healthcare/retail industry. I found her attempts to understand the professional industry weak and very much like too many others who want in without working their way up, or going to school for the baseline knowledge.
My friend said that I missed the point, but I feel as if the author mimicked a half a dozen or so applicants I interviewed this last month; trained to use buzz words, but have no real knowledge of the job.
She does a rather remarkable job in pointing out that one needs far more than a "people personality" to go far in a professional world, and spending a grand or more in coaching is not a golden ticket.
Overall, light and semi entertaining reading, not really the moral outrage of the common people being barred from elite jobs as it was introduced to me.
Nickel and Dimed is by far the better of Ehrenreich's work.
Book Description
It has become routine for the U.S. government to invoke human rights to justify its foreign policy decisions and military ventures. But this human rights talk has not been supported by a human rights walk. Policymakers consistently apply a double standard for human rights norms: one the rest of the world must observe, but which the U.S. can safely ignore.
Julie Mertus, a leading humans rights expert, argues that talk of human rights has become the political equivalent of a bait and switch. Like the car salesman promoting an amazing, but bogus deal in order to get people into the showroom, politicians promise human rights to gain support for their policies, then offer a substitute unreflective of a genuine concern for rights.
Based on extensive interviews with leading foreign policymakers, military officials, and human rights advocates, Mertus tells the story of how America's attempts to promote human rights abroad have, paradoxically, undermined those rights in other countries.
Challenging and powerful Bait and Switch is essential reading for anyone interested in human rights, U.S. foreign policy, the changing role of the military and the efforts of NGOs to promote change.
Winner of the American Political Science Association's 2004 Best Book on Human Rights.
Customer Reviews:
Stimulating and Informative! .......2004-08-30
A wonderful book for academics and anyone looking for a good read on how the human rights movement was promoted or neglected during the post -cold war period in the United States. Through numerous interviews, Julie Mertus has compiled a fascinating look into the world of U.S. foreign policy and its interaction with human rights in the international community. The objectivity of the book was useful in gaining a broad perspective of various influences on human rights in the U.S. including presidential administrations, civil society, and the military.
As a student of human rights, this book helped me to gain a better understanding of the U.S.' relationship with human rights. As an avid reader, I found Bait and Switch to be an interesting and easy story to follow. I would recommend this book to anyone!
An Essential Guide to Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy.......2004-08-24
In Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy, Julie Mertus presents a balanced and analytical view of how human rights have consistently been neglected as legitimate foreign policy considerations. Although expecting to find human rights norms deeply "embedded" in post-Cold War presidential administrations and the U.S. military, Mertus finds that all too often U.S. foreign policy has been guided by a particularist "American exceptionalism" which threatens to undermine the core nature of universal human rights.
Julie Mertus provides a comprehensive and detailed examination of America's foreign policy decisions from a human rights perspective. The issues raised in Bait and Switch have even more resonance in today's global environment, where fostering a human rights culture in America and abroad should be a priority. This an essential text for academics, policymakers, advocates and anyone interested in international affairs.
Clear and powerful.......2004-08-22
A very good primer on US Government's foreign policy for someone who lives outside US and has experienced the outcomes of double standards that the US Government has been employing with regard to his country. Healthy criticism is an inseparable part of healthy democracy.
A very important book.......2004-08-22
This well-researched book taught me a great deal. I highly recommend it! Part of the responsibility of our government is to protect its citizens, but we can't allow ourselves to be protected from the truth.
Important and Timely..........2004-08-21
Just in time for one of the most divisive presidential elections in recent history, Mertus provides the reader with the thorough research necessary to make an informed decision about the future of our country, and our place in shaping human rights around the world. As Mertus points out, the United States has long engaged in a double standard of human rights, with what is essentially a "do as I say, not as I do" attitude, and actions that demonstrate this attitude of global superiority. That Mertus has meticulously researched her topic and conducted extensive interviews is not surprising: It is the excellent standard that one has come to expect from Mertus.
Customer Reviews:
fun twin siwtching frolic.......2002-10-04
In the middle of the night, Cary Mitchell flees Charleston to obtain help from his twin brother Grant better known as "Mitch". Cary owes bookie Flash Gorman twenty grand that if he does not pay now will lead to broken kneecaps. Cary also mentions that he has stolen from the till of a bar filled with dirty money to pay off some of the debt. What he fails to tell his sibling, an Atlanta cop, is that the reason he fled town is that Flash expects Cary to pay his tab by breaking the kneecaps of other clients behind in their remittance.
Mitch decides that the best course of action is to hand Flash over to the police so when Cary refuses to play, Mitch offers to go undercover as Cary in a BAIT AND SWITCH operation. The first problem surfaces when Cary's girlfriend Peyton McDowell, daughter of a DA, arrives yelling at the switched Mitch. Others surface, but as he tries to solve his brother's problems, nothing goes right especially when it comes to Peyton because he begins falling in love with his sibling's girlfriend.
Siblings switching places is a theme that is as old as the Old Testament yet Darlene Gardner keeps her story line fresh by enabling the readers to distinguish between the twins because their personalities remain in tact. This especially occurs with Peyton confused by Mitch's change in behavior and attitude. Thus amusing situations arise, as nothing is smooth as expected with a long-term identity exchange. The BAIT AND SWITCH of Mitch and Cary leads to a fun frolic for readers.
Harriet Klausner
Winner of the WordWeaving Award for Excellence.......2002-10-03
When Twin Cary arrives on his doorstep, Mitch quickly realizes his brother is in trouble again. In debt to his bookie, Cary has devised a plan to extricate himself from trouble at Mitch's expense. These mirror image twins will simply set the bait, and then switch places. Mitch will make the arrest and Cary will be off the hook with minimum fuss. Even Peyton, Cary's lady friend, cannot tell them apart.
Cary does not appreciate Mitch's risk to his career or his kneecaps, since criminals notoriously break bones in reprisal for nonpayment of debts. Worse, Mitch's ethics do not allow romantic attachments to any woman currently or previously involved with his brother. In addition, Peyton's capricious nature ensures rather unpredictable results with one sure conclusion: she inspires wicked desires and wild fantasies. Too bad Mitch cannot be quite sure if she is falling for him, or his mirror image.
The author of THE MISCONCEPTION is back with a lively twin switch that brings sparkling hilarity in BAIT & SWITCH. The zany plot keeps the pace quick even as the characters come vividly to life. While the unifying plot is quite serious, the tone remains light and snappy. Indeed, Mitch must be the only hero in history to be sent on errand to collect on debt for a bookie, and lend the subject money rather than breaking bones! The dominate theme of identity and being true to one's self keeps the readers amused right down to the secondary plot with its playful twists. With strong characters, funny dialogue, and a strong element of sensual tease, BAIT & SWITCH earns the WordWeaving Award for Excellence.
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Bait and Switch
Julie Mertus
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Bait and Switch
Larry Brooks
Manufacturer: Signet
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Bait and Switch
JoAnn Ross
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