When her deservedly best-selling book "Nickel and Dimed" came out about the oppression of blue-collar workers in America, middle-class people began asking Barbara Ehrenreich, "What about us?" Her new book, subtitled "The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream," charts the downward progress of "people...who didn't have babies in high school, who made good grades, who work hard and don't kiss a lot of ass and instead of getting promoted or paid fairly must regress to working for $7 an hour... Ehrenreich re-used her tactics from researching "Nickel and Dimed" - i.e. she applied for jobs in the corporate world as she did for blue-collar jobs, waitressing, cleaning and working in Walmart's. The difference is that she didn't get a job. Ehrenreich lowers her expectations as the job search c...
BAIT AND SWITCH The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream BARBARA EHRENREICH
* BAIT AND SWITCH: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, by Barbara Ehrenreich; Metropolitan, 256 pages, $24. * * *
Although some viewers may balk at the film's gauzy view of the relationship between a cheetah and a child, [Carroll Ballard] and his writers have toughened up the material considerably from their children's book source in which the cat was a lifelong house pet. Although Ballard's film paints an optimistic portrait of a human-habituated cheetah's adaptability to the wild, the filmmaker does take some pains to stress the rigors of the wilderness, while avoiding the goriest details of the hunt. At 100 minutes, the film is a little bit long and contemplative for the youngest children. Slightly older kids, however, should be perfectly charmed by this story of a boy and his cheetah. [Dick] ([Jim Carrey]) and [Jane Fonda] (Téa Leoni) are a happy, upwardly mobile couple who live in a souther...
... threatens to become a comic adaptation of Barbara Ehrenreich's recent books Nickel and Dinted and Baait and Switch. Dick's initial optimism that he'll find a new jo...
Many of the books and groups that [Barbara Ehrenreich] encounters echo the rhetoric of Alcoholics Anonymous. They treat unemployment as a disease, but they also blame the victim, for lack of resolve. Each prescribes a multi-step program to overcome failure at finding a job. Ehrenreich also stumbles into sessions that, applying a faith-based approach to the job search, are essentially Christian prayer meetings. She is appalled by the casual racism, homophobia, and misogyny she observes amidst the pious cant about the workings of providence in a ruthless economy. Religion, as she sees it, is the opiate of the unemployed. "Maybe one of the functions of the evangelical revival sweeping America," Ehrenreich suggests, "is to reconcile people to an increasingly unreliable work world. Bait and...
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. Barba...
Free screening of documentary on the effects of Wal-Mart Supercenters on small towns, 7 p.m. in the large classroom of the Redlands Community Center. Hosted by the Lugonia Community Association. Discussion will follow. Information: www.lugoniacommunity.org Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch," is speaking 7 p.m. in the University of Redlands Orton Center, 1200 E. Colton Ave. The lecture is free and open to the public. Information: Leela MadhavaRau, 748-6336.
Klein reviews by Barbara Ehrenreich.
For [Barbara Ehrenreich] the increase in white-collar unemployment, the downsizing, the off-shoring of previously "safe" jobs all add up to a shattering of a social contract understood by generations of Americans. That is, work hard, stay loyal to the company and be rewarded with security. A generation ago, such employer monogamy was the norm. Today, with the exception of a few niches in the public sector, folks are impressed if you've stuck with the same job for five years. The irony here is palpable, or at least it should be. Where dissident intellectuals once lamented the conformist oppression meted out and endured by incarnations of "the man in the gray flannel suit," now, it seems they'd welcome his return home with a path of lotuses. In her conclusion, Ehrenreich makes a rathe...
BAIT AND SWITCH by Barbara Ehrenreich. New York: Henry...
BAIT AND SWITCH: THE (FUTILE) PURSUIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, by Barbara Ehrenreich, Metropolitan Books, 241 pages, $24. If she had lived in the early part of the 20th century, Barbara Ehrenreich would have been called a muckraker -- a writer who shines light on the dirty aspects of American life. She is the author of 13 books, and her most recent success was the best-selling "Nickel and Dimed," which explored the economic problems of low-wage workers.
Wage speaker Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, will speak at the Lensic Theater at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 11. Her talk, Will Work for Change, is a benefit for the Santa Fe Living Wage Network. Tickets are available at www.ticketssantafe.com or 988- 1234. For more information, go to www.santafelivingwage.org.
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